Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 3.5 and K3B

[Mark Haney]

Duncan wrote:
> 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
>
>
That did it.  Thanks for the info, I never knew k3b didn't need hal or 
dbus.  Anyday you learn something is a day that you didn't waste.  
Thanks for that and the links.



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