Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging kde-meta

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Thursday 01 March 2007, Turi Tropea <turitropea@××××××.it> wrote 
about 'Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging kde-meta':
> Bo Ørsted Andresen ha scritto:
> > Just unmerge kdebase and you should be able to proceed...
>
> the kde related packages was installed by beryl and aquamarine...so if
> i unmerge them can i cause that beryl does not work?
> or how i can have a functional kde environment using the monolithic
> ebuild?

Monolithic or split ebuilds provide a functional kde environment and split 
ebuilds are the "new hotness" that should, at least IMO, be used by 
default.  When (e.g.) all the split ebuilds pulled in by kdebase-meta are 
installed you have the same functionality as installing kdebase; so if 
beryl (or others) have a hard dependency on a monolithic package that 
package is broken and need to be fixed to work with the split ebuilds.  
(Changing the 'kde-base/kdebase' atom to '|| ( kde-base/kdebase-meta 
kdebase/kdebase)' is a start...)

Your problem is that you are trying to mix them.  That is difficult or 
impossible and is AFAIK not supported.  Either remove all your monolithic 
packages and install the split equivalents (the -meta packages help here) 
or remove all your split packages and install all the monolithic packages 
you need.

It's possible  you may need to run revdep-rebuild (from the gentoolkit 
package) and/or reinstall keryl after you fix your kde issues for it to 
work.

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