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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] KDE's confusing versions
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 12:24:36
Message-Id: 20160305233738.GA1264@ca.inter.net
1 I don't use the KDE desktop & don't want it installed,
2 but I do regularly use several KDE apps, eg Konsole, Gwenview, Okular.
3 For a long time, there haven't been stable updates of these apps
4 & I've continued to run the '4.14.x' versions,
5 but today Okular 15.08.3-r1 appeared as stable
6 when I did my weekly update via 'eix-sync'.
7 I duly emerged it -- I never do 'emerge world' without '-p' --
8 & it seems to be working as before.
9
10 Eix tells me :
11
12 root:504 ~> eix konsole
13 [U] kde-apps/konsole
14 Available versions:
15 (4) 4.14.3(4/4.14)^t 4.14.3-r2(4/4.14)^t
16 (5) ~15.08.3-r1
17 {X aqua debug +handbook test}
18 Installed versions: 4.14.3(4)^t([2015-10-07 13:08:42])
19 (handbook -aqua -debug -minimal -test)
20
21 root:505 ~> eix okular
22 [I] kde-apps/okular
23 Available versions:
24 (4) 4.14.3(4/4.14)^t 15.08.3-r1(4/15.08)^t ~15.12.1(4/15.12)^t
25 {aqua chm crypt debug djvu dpi ebook +handbook +jpeg kde mobi
26 +pdf +postscript +tiff}
27 Installed versions: 15.08.3-r1(4)^t([2016-03-05 18:13:44])
28 (crypt handbook jpeg pdf tiff -aqua -chm -debug -djvu -dpi -ebook
29 -kde -mobi -postscript)
30
31 So Okular 15.08.3-r1 is part of version (4),
32 but Konsole 15.08.3-r1 is part of version (5).
33
34 Can anyone explain this anomaly & how KDE versions are evolving ?
35
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