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On 08/28/2009 03:17 PM, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: |
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> Hi all. |
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> Reading http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml#kde_portage |
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> I found the following sentence: |
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> 8x------ |
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> KDE 4 is the current KDE version supported by upstream. |
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> 8x------ |
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> However, if I try to install KDE 4.2, it says KDE 4.2 is masked... |
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> Is it right? Do I have to unmask it to install KDE 4.2, even if it is |
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> the current KDE version supported by upstream? |
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> (I tried to follow the instruction and unmasking using the provided |
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> file, but I met lot of other masked packages...) |
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> Should I wait for KDE 4 to become unmasked? |
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It's not "masked", as that refers to hard-masking. When portage says |
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"masked by keyword" it means it's simply keyworded "~arch" instead of |
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"arch". To install it, you don't have to "unmask" it |
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(/etc/portage/package.unmask), you have to keyword it (and that's |
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/etc/portage/package.keywords). |
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Whether you decide to wait for it to be stabilized (put in "arch") is up |
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to you. If you decide not to wait, don't install 4.2.4. Go for 4.3.0 |
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instead since 4.2.4 will be removed from portage at some point and will |
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never be stabilized. Stabilization will happen with 4.3.x. |
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