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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Akos Szalkai<szalkai@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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>>> You may be thinking of autounmask. But I don't think it will help with |
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>>> the KDE 4.2.4->4.3.0 blocks. |
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>> Yes, that's what I was thinking of. |
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>> Why don't you think it will help in this case? Is it limited in some way? |
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> If I'm remember correctly (I don't have a KDE-4.2.4 system right now), |
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> the blocks are not keyword or mask related, but 4.2.4 and 4.3 simply |
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> blocking each other. You cannot have both installed, unless you turn on |
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> the very much deprecated kdeprefix USE flag. And if you have a :4.2 |
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> versioned item in world, portage won't be able to resolve the blocks by |
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> upgrading (which may or may not be considered a portage problem). |
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> At least this is how I imagine the situation, without digging too deep |
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> into the ebuilds. :-/ |
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> Akos |
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Ah, OK. Thanks for the insights. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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