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On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:10:07 -0400 |
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Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 03/18/12 08:55, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:15:10 -0400 |
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> > Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> Hi, |
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> >> All of you guys that are more experienced and technical than I am |
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> >> will probably laugh at me. However .... |
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> >> Today, I wanted to update my computer. I got all kinds of messages |
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> >> related to kde stuff. One my one, I unmerged the offending packages |
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> >> and added the line to my package.keywords file so that an upgrade |
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> >> of a package masked by keyword would be installed. |
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> >> However, activitymanager can't be reinstalled because there isn't |
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> >> an upgrade to 4.8.1. Since I went about things the way I did, I |
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> >> can't get this package installed because everything else is |
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> >> upgraded to 4.8.1 and activitymanager's latest version is 4.7.4. |
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> > I believe activitymanager is now part of kactivities. |
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> > So just unmerge activitymanager and let the ebuilds figure it out. |
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> > You probably have activitymanager in world so portage tries to |
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> > explicitly pull it in. |
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> Yes, I have activity manager in world, but I've unmasked all kde |
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> packages for version 4.8.1 and because of that, I can't get |
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> activitymanager installed because the latest verion for that is only |
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> 4.7.4 and I get told kactivities-4.8.1 blocks activitymanager.. I can |
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> get into KDE after my upgrade, but I can't move windows around, nor |
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> close or resize them. So I assume activitymanager is somehow needed. |
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Not quite. activitymanager is being pulled in not because it is needed, |
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but because you told portage to do it regardless of what portage thinks |
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(that's what happens when you put things in world). |
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In this case, portage actually does know better than you. |
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Just unmerge activitymanager entirely and let portage figure it out. |
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The software you want will be installed but as part of kactivities |
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(apparently the variosu KDE and Gentoo devs moved stuff around and |
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renamed things. It happens.) |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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