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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:42:44
Message-Id: 4985ECDF.8060102@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5 by Daniel D Jones
1 Daniel D Jones wrote:
2 > On Sunday 01 February 2009 17:49:03 Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 17:07:37 +0000, Daniel D Jones wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> 3.5.10 is available under the meta package system but not under the KDE
7 >>> package. Do I have to switch to the meta package to go to 3.5.10?
8 >>> (Without, that is, manually unblocking lots and lots of packages.) Can
9 >>> I simply install the meta package over the base package or will that
10 >>> create blocks or other issues?
11 >>>
12 >> The monolithic and split ebuilds are incompatible, so you'll have to
13 >> uninstall one before you can install the other.
14 >>
15 >> emerge -C kde
16 >> emerge --depclean -a
17 >> emerge -av kde-meta
18 >>
19 >
20 > That's what I was afraid of. Sigh. Thanks.
21 >
22 >
23 >
24
25 Could he just emerge -C kde then re-emerge whatever he wanted without
26 having to reinstall all of KDE? Isn't packages like Konqueror just a
27 dependency pulled in by the original emerge kde?
28
29 Maybe I am missing something but I would hate to have to recompile all
30 of KDE just for that upgrade.
31
32 Dale
33
34 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>