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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:16:36
Message-Id: loom.20090325T051056-222@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:
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4 > > Where I'm confused is can I have 2 versions
5 > > of kdelibs installed at the same time?
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7 > Yes, you can.
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9 Right,
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11 got it.
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13 Can be done, but henders move to a clean, 100% kde4
14 installation.
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17 > Avoiding having kde-3.5 stuff installed is exactly the same as avoiding having
18 > firefox installed - don't emerge it.
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21 Yep, I get it, manual_labor.
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24 I was looooooking for a silver bullet,
25 so I can just auto prevent installing anything that
26 uses kde 3 *....
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28 On this system, I install a lot of random software
29 just to test it out. Sure I can manually check for
30 any kde 3.5 dependancies, but it would just be
31 easier to find a way to mask off all kde 3.5, methinks,
32 and then deal with that exceptional piece of vintage
33 software on a one off basis....
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38 thx,
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41 James

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>