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From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:43:46
Message-Id: 200801191843.17704.uwix@iway.na
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0 by Dale
1 On 19 January 2008, Dale wrote:
2 > Uwe Thiem wrote:
3 > > Hi folks,
4 > >
5 > > after the painful and time-consuming creation of
6 > > /etc/portage/package.unmask for KDE 4, <emerge --pretend --verbose
7 > > "=kde-base/kde-meta-4.0.0" tells me: [blocks B ]
8 > > <kde-base/kdebase-3.5.7-r6 (is blocking
9 > > kde-base/kdelibs-4.0.0)
10 > >
11 > > I do not have emerge kdebase-3.5.7 but kdebase-3.5.8. The3refore, I
12 > > cannot unemerge 3.5.7. How can I work around this?
13 > >
14 > > Uwe
15 >
16 > For future reference, check out autounmask. I found out about it the
17 > other day. I have not used it yet but I'm hopeful it works.
18
19 I'll have look into autounmask.
20
21 >
22 > Also, there is a thread on the forums about this, I think you have to
23 > have 3.5.8* version to do this. Not sure why tho. Isn't KDE 4.0
24 > slotted? Can't you have 3.5 AND 4.0 installed and select which version
25 > you want to log into?
26
27 Exactly. So why is kdebase-3.5.7-r6 (which is not even installed here)
28 blocking kdelibs-4.0.0?
29
30 Uwe
31
32 --
33 If a man speaks in a forest, and no woman listens to him,
34 is he still lying?
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