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Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> posted 4914E580.5010502@g.o, |
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excerpted below, on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:04:00 -0800: |
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> I haven't talked to [the kde project] about [hard-masking all portage |
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versions with set support] but AFAIK it entirely possible to use |
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> kde4 without package sets since the meta-ebuilds are available. |
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Hmm... I followed the kde4 guide, which talks about sets, and was under |
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the impression they either weren't even doing the metapackages, with sets |
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supplanting them, of if they were, they were using set dependencies, thus |
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required sets. |
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A quick look demonstrates that impression was wrong, however. I'd never |
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even checked to see if the meta-ebuilds were actually there! |
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So... it seems the ebuilds are there. Never-the-less, for folks who have |
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followed the kde4 guide, sets will be (almost) a must, since that's what |
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it talks about using, so that's probably what folks who read the guide |
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/did/ use. I know it's what I used.[1] |
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Regardless, I'd definitely touch base with them on it. At minimum, the |
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upgrade guide will need either changed or taken down, if set support goes |
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back hard-masked. I doubt they'll be very happy about it, but if it |
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needs to happen, well... |
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[1] FWIW, I have kde-4.1.2 merged, but consider it still broken and well |
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short of what I'd find actually workable for daily use. There's just too |
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many bits and pieces that don't work, and won't work until at least |
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4.2.0, possibly 4.3.0 the way things are going. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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