Re: [gentoo-desktop] has the sun set ?

[Philip Webb]

150601 E. Liddell wrote:
> 150601 Philip Webb wrote:
>> Kde-Sunset appears to require Lcms:0 for Libmng:0 ,
>> which is required by Qt-Meta:3 & which aren't included in Kde-Sunset itself.
>> For now, I can simply ignore the warning, but it looks
>> as if it wb no longer possible to install Kde-Sunset on a new machine.
> Compile libmng without lcms support ?  I'm pretty sure it's optional
> and qt-meta doesn't care what USE flags are set for libmng.

That wb possible, but it would mean upgrading to libmng:2 ,
which doesn't work with qt-meta:3 .

> No one uses the mng format anyway, so it isn't much of a loss.

There's no USE flag for mng on qt-meta:3 .

So  2  further questions :
(1) is there a way to remerge qt-meta:3 without using libmng ?
(2) if I make a quickpkg of libmng:0 or lcms:0 , will Portage allow me
to re-install them if I want to after testing the upgrade,
given that they are no longer in the Portage tree ?

> While it isn't optimal, it's possible to get any ebuild
> that was ever in the main tree from the attic,
> if you need to fill in gaps for a new installation:
> https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/?hideattic=0
> Some ebuilds from this source may need to be retouched
> before portage is happy with them,
> but if they're not too old it's usually possible to get them working.

I probably have a note of that site in my home-made help files.
Would I put the ebuild in my local layman dir & would Portage like it ?

And isn't there a problem for Kde-Sunset, given the facts above :
ie KDE 3 needs qt-meta:3 , which requires libmng:0 ,
which is no longer in the Portage tree nor is in the Sunset tree ?

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