El mié, 04-11-2009 a las 16:51 -0600, Dale escribió:
> Because I am not familiar with overlays.  I have never used one and hope
> to keep it that way.  If it was hardmasked, just run autounmask
> kde-meta:3.5 or something similar and carry on. 

I simply run:
# emerge layman
# layman -a "desired overlay"
# emerge "desired kde3 package"

in summary, please take a look on layman ;-)

> As for the tree, until recently I was on a very slow dial-up and just
> syncing the tree took about 45 minutes on average.  I never complained
> about Gnome being there.  I don't use Gnome but I know other people do. 
> I did try it once tho.  Just prefer KDE.  Sorry.  I won't complain about
> Gnome if you don't complain about KDE.  lol

That rationale is not ok since gnome is properly alive and maintained,
while kde3 is unsupported by upstream :-)

> 
> Dale

Best regards