Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-desktop] Re: has the sun set ?
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:50:47
Message-Id: mkhdd9$9l5$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] has the sun set ? by Philip Webb
1 On 01/06/15 19:33, Philip Webb wrote:
2 > [ forwarded to Gentoo-Desktop, the list given for Kde-Sunset ]
3 >
4 > Using Kde-Sunset, I have 3 useful apps available in forms
5 > which aren't provided by KDE 4 (Kworldclock Ksokoban Kmahjongg).
6 >
7 > Yesterday, while doing my weekly system update, I encountered a msg :
8 >
9 > !!! The following installed packages are masked:
10 > - media-libs/lcms-1.19-r1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
11 > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
12 > # Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o> (27 May 2015)
13 > # on behalf of Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o>
14 > # media-libs/lcms:0 has serious security issues and is unmaintained,
15 > # see bug 526642. Please uninstall it and/or upgrade to media-libs/lcms:2
16 >
17 > I looked at the bug, which explains the reason for dropping Lcms:0 .
18 >
19 > Unfortunately, Kde-Sunset appears to require Lcms:0 for Libmng:0 ,
20 > which is required by Qt-Meta:3 & which aren't included in Kde-Sunset itself.
21 > For now, I can simply ignore the warning, but it looks
22 > as if it wb no longer possible to install Kde-Sunset on a new machine.
23 >
24 > I realise Gentoo itself doesn't provide support for Kde-Sunset,
25 > but does anyone know of a way round this obstacle or have other advice ?
26 >
27
28 lcms:0 can always be added to the overlay too.