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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:32:41
Message-Id: tkrat.cc5e32d05761a55e@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again by Alan McKinnon
1 On 10 Feb, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 10 February 2010 10:36:35 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> has anybody a recipe on this upgrade hell each time KDE release a new
6 >> version?
7 >> This time existing KDE-4.3.5 packages block KDE-4.4 packages though they
8 >> go to different slots.
9 >> Even portage-2.2_rc62 is unable to cope with that.
10 >
11 >
12 > Remove ALL version-specific information for kde entries from world.
13
14 There are no specific version of kde in world
15
16 > Don't mix and match -meta packages and sets.
17
18 What do you mean by that? I don't think I have any kde-sets here
19
20 # emerge --list-sets
21 downgrade
22 installed
23 live-rebuild
24 module-rebuild
25 preserved-rebuild
26 security
27 selected
28 system
29 unavailable
30 world
31
32 > Beware of kde-misc entries - often times they have depends on the old SLOT and
33 > pull in conflicts. These ebuilds are not as maintained as the kdebase ones,
34 > same with the apps themselves.
35 >
36
37 Thanks,
38 Helmut.
39
40 --
41 Helmut Jarausch
42
43 Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
44 RWTH - Aachen University
45 D 52056 Aachen, Germany

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>