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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
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: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:28:11
Message-Id: 4AF18F73.9010604@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite (part 1): KDE3-only applications that won't build when KDE4 is installed by Pacho Ramos
1 Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > El mié, 04-11-2009 a las 07:55 -0600, Dale escribió:
3 >
4 >> I mention because I have already downloaded Mandriva and plan to install
5 >> it as a temporary fix if needed. I think I can suffer through Mandriva
6 >> for a couple months while this gets sorted out. I'm planning to install
7 >> the same for my brother. I would like to install Gentoo but he's not as
8 >> geeky as me.
9 >>
10 >> < back to my hole again >
11 >>
12 >> Dale
13 >>
14 >> :-) :-)
15 >>
16 >>
17 >>
18 >
19 > Mandriva already dropped KDE3 in 2010 and cooker and it's not being
20 > supported in older versions, since it's in contrib (for 2009.1) and
21 > 2009.0 (and previous) support ended for desktops. Then, it's "the same
22 > situation" (or even worse since, *if I don't misremember*, there is no
23 > external repository still providing kde3)
24 >
25 > Regards
26 >
27 >
28 >
29 >
30
31 I have the 2009 version which still has KDE 3.5 available. I think KDE
32 4 is there to but I don't plan to install it anyway.
33
34 It may not be as secure but at least it still works. ;-)
35
36 Dale
37
38 :-) :-)

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