Re: [gentoo-dev] Announce: new QT and KDE ebuilds

[Justin and Jennifer Lee]

Are you perchance working on kde3 ebuilds?

On Saturday 29 December 2001 9:29, you wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> A new batch of ebuilds is on cvs. This changes yet again the way qt and kde
> ebuilds work. This time, though it really should be final. I'm sorry about
> any inconveniences caused.
>
> To upgrade:
> 1) emerge --clean rsync (or cvs update); the --clean is important here.
>
> 2) merge x11-libs/qt, kde-base/kdelibs, kde-base/kdebase in that order.
>
> 3) unmerge all versions of x11-libs/qt-x11 and all but the latest versions
> of kde-base/kdelibs and kde-base/kdebase.
>
> 4) If any QT/KDe program doesn't work, try remerging it and unmerging the
> previous revision. If that doesn't help, post here.
>
> Summary of some of the more important changes:
> 1. i18n ebuilds have been added for kde 2.2.2 and koffice 1.1.1; they are
> in the app-i18n directory.
> 2. All kde/qt ebuilds should now be working, with or without the kde/qt use
> flags. Lots of fixes have gone in.
> 3. All non-latest revision ebuilds have been removed.
> 4. objprelink support has been removed. However, it will be back in the
> form of general prelinking support for all apps!
> 5. The x11-libs/qt-x11 ebuild has been broken up; there is now an
> x11-libs/qt ebuild which installs the libs and tools, and a app-doc/qt-docs
> ebuild which installs the documentatio, tutorials, examples etc. and is
> only needed by developers of QT apps.
> 6. Anyone's who's working with inheriting ebuilds, please read
> /usr/portage/eclass/doc/news.txt and (re)read howto.*.

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