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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:44:27
Message-Id: 200908200044.20652.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question by "John H. Moe"
1 John H. Moe writes:
2
3 > Alex Schuster wrote:
4 > > Roy Wright writes:
5
6 > >> 4) recustomize kde as the ~/.kde will not be migrated
7 > >
8 > > I really hope I can just copy .kde4.2 to .kde4 and all (okay, most)
9 > > settings will be kept. I think it just _should_ work. Customizing all
10 > > over again every time a new KDE arrives would be no good.
11
12 > Well, I don't know about necessary, but on my box, when I tried to
13 > update from kde-meta:4.2 to kde-meta:4.3, there were a few blockers that
14 > wouldn't let it go through, so I ended up unmerging 4.2, then emerging
15 > 4.3 (which took about 4-6 hours, but I have distcc set up between two
16 > boxes, so that probably sped things up). However, I seem to remember
17 > that the blockers were with PyQt, Python and eselect-python; I hadn't
18 > thought about it, cause I'm still not THAT experienced with Linux in
19 > general, and Gentoo in particular, but the Python update was a Big Deal,
20 > so perhaps updating Python before the KDE upgrade would have been a good
21 > idea. :-P Granted though, I didn't use sets, so it may be a bit
22 > different for you.
23
24 Yes, emerge -p @kde-4.3 shows now problems. Maybe it's because of using
25 sets, or I already have resolved the blockers, as I already had trouble with
26 PyQt and such.
27
28 > Oh, and I didn't touch my .kde or .kde4 folders during this process, and
29 > as far as I can tell, it's still using all of my customizations...
30
31 This sounds good.
32
33 Wonko