[gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 4.2 sets

[Duncan]

"Mark Haney" <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> posted
49830842.7070704@××××××××××××.org, excerpted below, on  Fri, 30 Jan 2009
09:01:38 -0500:

> I noticed that the Gentoo KDe 4 upgrade page makes note of the need to
> use meta ebuilds.  Which I didn't notice yesterday.  My bad.  It' so
> bloody hard to keep up with everything.

Well, that's one of the things that comes with running not even ~arch but 
still hard-masked and/or often in overlay packages.  Those aren't ready 
for ~arch yet in part /because/ they are still changing, adding and 
fixing dependencies, changing the guide, etc.  It's all part of the game 
if you want to try stuff out that early.

But AFAIK they announced that it's unmasked to ~arch in the tree, now... 
probably less than an hour after I synced, yesterday.

BTW, I'm using the sets that were still linked on the guide, from the 
overlay.  I don't want the whole metas, and use the manual set 
combination hacks outlined in the portage-devs' blogs to combine the sets 
as they come with a no-install set for each one, the latter listing the 
packages I do /not/ want.

At first I just tried to use the same (unversioned) sets from kde-4.1, 
but as a couple packages changed name, etc, that wasn't working too well 
and I was getting blockers, etc.  So I grabbed the new sets, which 
resolved the problem two days ago, then had additional problems to 
resolve yesterday due to tweaks to the masked packages list.  But at 
least the last shouldn't be an issue now that they are unmasked.

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