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Martin Herrman posted on Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:08:14 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> thanks for your clear explanation. Yes, I'm running stable, but have |
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> installed KDE4 by adding a bunch of packages to the unmask list. I |
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> didn't realise that with new packages for KDE4, I obviously had to add |
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> them to the list.. So I added runtime-meta today and upgrading to the |
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> latest packages was smooth as usual again :-) |
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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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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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