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From: Alistair Bush <ali_bush@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite (part 1): KDE3-only applications that won't build when KDE4 is installed
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:15:25
Message-Id: 200911052016.28422.ali_bush@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite (part 1): KDE3-only applications that won't build when KDE4 is installed by Dale
1 > Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > > El mié, 04-11-2009 a las 07:55 -0600, Dale escribió:
3 > >> I mention because I have already downloaded Mandriva and plan to install
4 > >> it as a temporary fix if needed. I think I can suffer through Mandriva
5 > >> for a couple months while this gets sorted out. I'm planning to install
6 > >> the same for my brother. I would like to install Gentoo but he's not as
7 > >> geeky as me.
8 > >>
9 > >> < back to my hole again >
10 > >>
11 > >> Dale
12 > >>
13 > >> :-) :-)
14 > >
15 > > Mandriva already dropped KDE3 in 2010 and cooker and it's not being
16 > > supported in older versions, since it's in contrib (for 2009.1) and
17 > > 2009.0 (and previous) support ended for desktops. Then, it's "the same
18 > > situation" (or even worse since, *if I don't misremember*, there is no
19 > > external repository still providing kde3)
20 > >
21 > > Regards
22 >
23 > I have the 2009 version which still has KDE 3.5 available. I think KDE
24 > 4 is there to but I don't plan to install it anyway.
25 >
26 > It may not be as secure but at least it still works. ;-)
27
28 If you never sync'd you portage tree again then kde3.5 would continue to work
29 too.
30 >
31 > Dale
32 >
33 > :-) :-)
34 >

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