[gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 3.5 and K3B

[Duncan]

Mark Haney posted <43FA355C.7070407@××××××××××××.org>, excerpted below, on
Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:32:12 -0500:

> Bernhard Auzinger wrote:
>> Please characterize your issues more detailed. Post the error messages
>> and tell us more about your configuration.
>>
>> Am Montag 20 Februar 2006 15:48 schrieb Mark Haney:
>>
>>> I just upgraded to KDE 3.5.1 and I must say it's fantastic.  The only
>>> issue I seem to be having is some sort of shared library problem with
>>> hal, dbus, ivman and k3b.  I can't seem to get k3b working now no
>>> matter what I try with revdep-rebuild or any emerge combination.  Any
>>> ideas?
>>>
> Well here's the first problem I get when running revdep-rebuild:
>
> usr/lib64/libhal.so: undefined reference to
> `dbus_message_iter_get_boolean' /usr/lib64/libhal.so: undefined
> reference to `dbus_message_iter_get_string_array'
> /usr/lib64/libhal.so: undefined reference to
> `dbus_message_iter_append_nil' /usr/lib64/libhal.so: undefined reference
> to `dbus_message_iter_get_double'

Neither dbus nor hal should be required for k3b.  I have neither on my
system here, and K3B has always worked just fine, altho I've not run it
lately.

It appears hal is a USE flag for k3b.  Unless there's some specific reason
you want/need hal for k3b, consider setting -hal for k3b in
/etc/portage/package.use .  For a KDE user anyway, I've never figured out
what the big deal is for hal and dbus anyway, altho I believe they are
somewhat more critical in a GNOME based system.

FWIW, I long since gave up on GNOME -- for the same reason Linus has:
"This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of
Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do."
Some background and additional opinion on the issue, in an article by
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, at [1].  Or simply use Google's linux-specific
search page at [2], type in linus gnome kde as your search terms, and take
your pick of other coverage.

BTW, [2] is WELL worth bookmarking.  Here, I have it as one of KDE's
enhanced browsing features as well.  Just as gg:whatever works for a
general Google search, ggl: whatever by default is the I'm feeling lucky
function, but I replaced that with the google-linux search so ggl:whatever
will search for whatever on the google-linux search page, here.

[1] http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6060826007.html

[2] http://gnome.com/linux

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