Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 16:14 on Friday 03 September 2010, Robin 
Atwood did opine thusly:

> On Friday 03 September 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 15:54 on Friday 03 September 2010, Robin
> >
> > Atwood did opine thusly:
> > > I decided to attempt the upgrade to KDE 4.5.1 now it's out. Upgrading
> > > Qt to 4.6.3 got rid of most of the blocks but I am left with a problem
> > > with kdepimlib. It looks like various kdenetwork packages are dragging
> > > in kdepimlib-4.5.1 which is incompatible with keeping KDEPIM at 4.4.
> > > Anyone else seen this and (hopefully) have a solution?
> >
> > Are you installing from portage or from the overlay?
>
> From the kde overlay. It's not in portage yet, is it?

There's an blog entry on the front page at www.gentoo.org about 4.5.1, it 
seems to imply that it will go into portage with kdepimlibs pegged at 4.4. But 
it's wasn't in portage yet as of this morning

You have kopete and other ebuilds pulling in >=kdepimlib-4.5.1 so hard masking 
the later version won't work. I can only think of two approaches:

1. move the kde ebuilds to your private overlay and edit the DEPENDS for the 
offending packages,
2. wait till 4.5.* hits portage

I faced the same decision and went with #2. It's lousy collection of choices, 
perhaps someone else has a better plan.


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