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On Saturday 09 Jul 2016 16:30:18 Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> On 07/09/2016 03:40 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > In fact I tried the separate masking. It led on to having to treat |
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> > kde-plasma and kde-frameworks similarly, and before I knew it I was |
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> > unmasking a load of packages that don't belong in a KDE-4 system. |
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> > |
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> > What to try next? |
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> When I tried plasma and it crashed every 10 seconds I reverted and |
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> manually masked all packages >4.15. |
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> I figure eventually the instability will go away but decided to leave it |
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> for another year or so. Heck, I may never update again. ;-) I like |
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> having a desktop that just works. |
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> I haven't tried updating recently (some months because I don't want to |
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> deal with the plasma stuff now) though, so I don't know if it still works. |
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> I've attached my package.mask if you want to try it. Talk about try to |
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> solve updates with a sledgehammer though... |
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> I think you'll also have to remove wallpapers in order to make portage |
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> happy about conflicts: |
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> [/etc/portage/package.use] |
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> kde-base/kdebase-startkde -wallpapers |
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> kde-apps/kdebase-meta -wallpapers |
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> (Yes, it took forever to do that manually.) |
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> I suspect it will probably not work now but it'll be a starting point if |
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> you want to try this method. Maybe all you'll have to do is adjust some |
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> versions? |
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Thanks Dan. I tried your package.mask and thought I was getting somewhere. But |
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I had to add these to package.use (I have USE=-qt5 in make.conf): |
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sys-auth/polkit-qt qt5 |
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dev-libs/libdbusmenu-qt qt5 |
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media-libs/phonon qt5 |
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media-libs/phonon-vlc qt5 |
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Then I had to remove >kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta-4.15 from package.mask to |
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satisfy "(dependency required by "kde-base/kdebase-startkde-4.11.22::gentoo" |
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[ebuild])". Guess what? Of course - it wanted to install the whole set of qt5 |
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packages. |
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So I'm still stuck. I don't want to go to KDE-5 until I can find a way to |
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reduce the absurd amount of vertical space occupied by every line of text. It |
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will still be ugly, but at least more manageable. |
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I've attached screen shots of qt4 and qt5 versions of KMail to show what I |
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mean. The qt5 version is as close as I can get to the qt4. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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