Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5

[Daniel D Jones]

On Sunday 01 February 2009 15:40:29 Norberto Bensa wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Daniel D Jones <ddjones@××××××××××××.org>
wrote:
> > I have KDE 3.5 and 4.1 installed and am trying to upgrade to 4.2.  I'm
> > getting the following:
>
> You'll need kde-3.5.10 (or kdebase-startkde at least)
>
> Look in the archives, a similar question was posted a few days ago.

Thanks for your response.  I did search the archives and did not find anything 
relevant.  I saw and read a thread where a block was occurring:

<=kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10" is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.0

It wasn't clear to me that this was the same problem, since that block 
referenced a 3.5.10 package and mine referenced a 3.5.9 package.

However, upgrading to 3.5.10 raises another issue.  For 3.5, I didn't install 
the meta package, I installed the KDE base package:

ROOT / # eix -e kde
[I] kde-base/kde
     Available versions:  (3.5)  3.5.9
        {accessibility}
     Installed versions:  3.5.9(3.5)(02:18:39 05/27/08)(-accessibility)
     Homepage:            http://www.kde.org/
     Description:         KDE - merge this to pull in all non-developer 
kde-base/* packages


ROOT / # eix kde-meta
* kde-base/kde-meta
     Available versions:
        (3.5)   3.5.9 ~3.5.10
        (4.1)   (~)4.1.4
        (4.2)   (~)4.2.0
        {accessibility nls}
     Homepage:            http://www.kde.org/
     Description:         KDE - merge this to pull in all non-developer, split 
kde-base/* packages


3.5.10 is available under the meta package system but not under the KDE 
package.  Do I have to switch to the meta package to go to 3.5.10?  (Without, 
that is, manually unblocking lots and lots of packages.)  Can I simply 
install the meta package over the base package or will that create blocks or 
other issues?