Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

[Robin Atwood]

On Sunday 10 July 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 09 Jul 2016 23:22:49 I wrote:
> > On Sunday 10 Jul 2016 04:08:36 Michael Palimaka wrote:
> --->8
>
> > > This change is correct - we're in the process of cleaning up some old
> > > ebuilds at the moment.
> > >
> > > In this case kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta:5 doesn't imply anything
> > > KF5-based - it has just been ported to use a newer eclass. It still
> > > just pulls in the old KDE4-based kde-runtime packages.
>
> I don't think that's entirely true; see below.
>
> > That's good news. Now, how does one allow that package to be installed
> > while keeping the rest of KF5 masked?
> >
> > # cat /etc/portage/package.mask
> > kde-plasma/*
> > kde-frameworks/*:5
> > kde-apps/*:5
> > kde-misc/*:5
> >
> > >=kde-apps/kde4-l10n-16.04.1
> >
> > We seem to need an analogue of CONFIG_PROTECT and CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, in
> > which we could mask all kde-apps/*:5 while allowing
> > kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta:5 to be installed. Can that be done? I hope
> > there's an easier way than masking all 122 apps separately.
>
> In fact I tried the separate masking. It led on to having to treat
> kde-plasma and kde-frameworks similarly, and before I knew it I was
> unmasking a load of packages that don't belong in a KDE-4 system.
>
> What to try next?

Indeed. The situation seems to be that Gentoo is not upgradable unless KDE5 is 
installed. :(

Robin

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