Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.5 packages blocking each other

[Francisco Ares]

Thanks a lot!

Francisco

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de>wrote:

> Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 22:45:49 schrieb Francisco Ares:
>
> > And how do I tell if an ebuild is monolithic or not?
>
> The monolithic ones install larger parts of KDE, and usually have the same
> names as the original source packages offered at KDE.org.
>
> The split ebuilds, well, split those packages into their individual
> applications, so you have ebuilds for konqueror (which is also part of
> kdenetwork) or kmail (kdepim). In addition, there are the "-meta" ebuilds,
> which have the same name as the monolitic ones, but with -meta appended
> (kdepim-meta). Those usually install the same applications than monolithic
> ebuilds, but as split ebuilds.
>
> So, when you install kde, you get a complete KDE from monolithic ebuilds
> and
> when you install kde-meta, you get a complete KDE from split ebuilds.
>
> That's also the reason why they block each other. When you have kdepim
> installed, you already got kmail, so you shouldn't install kmail from the
> split ebuild again.
>
> HTH...
>
>        Dirk
>
>
>


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