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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:20:40
Message-Id: 4B8035E2.4030803@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert by Frank Steinmetzger
1 chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
2 > Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2010 schrieb Dale:
3 >
4 >
5 >> So, it wants to rebuild Kconvert but there is no such thing in portage.
6 >> I have the kde-sunset layman up to date as well. Also, I do use
7 >> Kconvert so I don't want to get rid of it either.
8 >>
9 >> Is there a way to fix this? Oh, the news item is not related. I read
10 >> it but plan to go back to it one day when I have more time to mess with it.
11 >>
12 >> Thanks.
13 >>
14 >> Dale
15 >>
16 > You can do what I do when I want to keep a package that’s been removed from
17 > portage: copy the overlay from /var/db/pkg/¹ to your local overlay
18 > at /usr/local/prtage.
19 >
20 > ¹ Basically, that’s where portage keeps copies of all installed ebuilds.
21 >
22
23 I may end up doing that. I thought the KDE 3 stuff was supposed to move
24 over to kde-sunset. Did they just miss this one package maybe?
25
26 I may just do a quickpkg of the thing, unmerge it, let it do the other
27 updates and then put it back. ;-)
28
29 Dale
30
31 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert Zeerak Mustafa Waseem <zeerak.w@×××××.com>