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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@××××××××××××××××××××××××.es>
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 11:10:36
Message-Id: 1257419428.7800.2.camel@localhost.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite (part 1): KDE3-only applications that won't build when KDE4 is installed by Dale
1 El mié, 04-11-2009 a las 16:51 -0600, Dale escribió:
2 > Because I am not familiar with overlays. I have never used one and hope
3 > to keep it that way. If it was hardmasked, just run autounmask
4 > kde-meta:3.5 or something similar and carry on.
5
6 I simply run:
7 # emerge layman
8 # layman -a "desired overlay"
9 # emerge "desired kde3 package"
10
11 in summary, please take a look on layman ;-)
12
13 > As for the tree, until recently I was on a very slow dial-up and just
14 > syncing the tree took about 45 minutes on average. I never complained
15 > about Gnome being there. I don't use Gnome but I know other people do.
16 > I did try it once tho. Just prefer KDE. Sorry. I won't complain about
17 > Gnome if you don't complain about KDE. lol
18
19 That rationale is not ok since gnome is properly alive and maintained,
20 while kde3 is unsupported by upstream :-)
21
22 >
23 > Dale
24
25 Best regards