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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 07:56:48
Message-Id: m15f2v$t2g$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5? by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On 10/09/2014 04:38 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > Am 08.10.2014 um 11:56 schrieb Michael Palimaka:
3 >> On 10/08/2014 07:31 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
4 >>> so after spending hours fighting to upgrade boost, I finally got to the
5 >>> point were portage let me emerge kde-framework.
6 >>>
7 >>> I went to bed.
8 >>>
9 >>> I woke up 2h later... only 9 packages were installed, the rest skipped
10 >>> because of wrong gcc.
11 >>>
12 >>> Crap like that should be told right at the start.
13 >> This is carryover from KDE 4. In all packages except kdelibs, the GCC
14 >> check was in pkg_setup instead of pkg_pretend to save time during
15 >> dependency resolution (think emerging 300 KDE packages at once).
16 >>
17 >> I did some quick tests and I'm not convinced that the small time saving
18 >> justifies bending the rules and causing the sort of issue you ran into.
19 >>
20 >>
21 >>
22 >
23 > luckily, I did have gcc 4.8 installed, until now I just did not have a
24 > reason to switch. Afterwards emerging the rest was a non-issue. emerge
25 > @preserved-rebuild is not happy, of course because of kactivities-4 and
26 > -5 not liking each other.. let them be unhappy...
27 >
28 >
29 >
30 >
31
32 You can have both at the same time by merging kactivities:4 with minimal
33 USE flag. That will be handled automatically by a new profile in due course.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5? Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>