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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Cool! =:^) |
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> You didn't mention whether you read the bug I linked or not, but it gives |
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> the reason behind the addition. Upstream kde is considering it "core" |
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> now, and packages may begin to use any of the included runtime |
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> functionality without warning. There's already (Gentoo-specific) bugs |
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> appearing that they're having to deal with, because Gentoo wasn't |
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> requiring it and thus certain assumed present functionality was missing. |
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> As usual, individual Gentoo users can use package.provided to avoid |
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> having to install some of the new packages if they only use individual |
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> kde apps, but they do so in the knowledge that they are short-circuiting |
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> a dependency mechanism and may be causing breakage to their own setup. |
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> (One such example is amarok, which now requires certain kdebase-runtime |
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> functionality for its lastfm support. Apparently, that functionality was |
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> broken for some users that used it, who filed bugs, with this being the |
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> resolution.) |
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Hi Duncan, |
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actually, I had already read it before I wrote the original posting. I |
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just didn't realise that I could 'safely' unmask the package (because |
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I already had chosen to run the unstable KDE4.3 release). |
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I like the concept of Gentoo, the power it gives to me, the safe |
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bleeding-edge apps and the ease in which I can run my own custom build |
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kernel. But on the other hand: I just need a working desktop and in |
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98% of the cases I don't want to dive into all the details to get |
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things working. This seems to be a contradiction, I should have been |
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an Ubuntu user, but that's not true :-D Now and then I apply some |
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custom USE-flags, but I stick to the default install as much as I can |
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so I'm not the one to discover bugs. |
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Regards, |
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Martin |