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On 10/5/05, Wes Gray <smiths@×××××××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> My 3-year old gentoo system has decided to be a big headache. My |
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> troubles started when I upgraded to kde 3.4. The kde taskbar apps |
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> wouldn't start. I tried unmerging kde-base and emerging kdebase-meta |
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> to see if it was related to the kde split, but that didn't help. I got |
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> the idea that the problem was some old kde packages, so I tried unmerging |
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> everything on my system which was kde related, including some old packages |
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> which are no longer in portage, then I reemerged everything. THis was |
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> a big mistake as afterwards kde was even more broken, and kde apps like |
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> k3b now don't even work. I've given up on kde and moved to enlightenment, |
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> but it will be really hard to deal without any kde apps. Lots of people |
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> have |
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> given me advice, but everything I try just seems to make things worse. It |
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> seems like there is something about old versions of kde that won't go |
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> away, |
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> which I don't understand at all. It seems like if you reemerge something |
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> it |
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> should move to the newest versions. I really could use some help because |
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> I have no idea what to do next. |
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> -Wes |
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> -- |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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KDE should separate its releases by minor version. KDE 3.2 or 3.3 shouldn't |
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interfere with KDE 3.4, which makes me wonder why and older version is |
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blocking things. emerge kde-meta and see what kind of trouble it gives you. |
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