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Richard Fish wrote: |
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> On 5/26/06, Anthony E. Caudel <acaudel@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I see that KDE 3.5 finally made it out of testing. I plan to upgrade to |
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>> it but since it is slotted, I'll have to unmerge 3.4 first. |
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> You don't need to unmerge 3.4 _first_. You can do it after you have |
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> merged 3.5, although even then it is optional. |
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>> Does the fact that it does not use the kde |
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>> flag guarantee that it does not need the kde libraries? |
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> No, like all USE flags, the kde flag is only for *optional* kde |
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> support. There are some applications that will not work at all |
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> without KDE, even though they are not part of KDE. Those applications |
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> will not have a kde use flag, but will bring in whatever parts of kde |
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> they depend on. Examples are koffice, kdevelop, kmplayer, kaffeine, |
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> ... |
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> equery depends kdelibs | grep -v kde-base/ |
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>> Course, I guess I could blithely go along and as apps crash, I'll find |
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>> the others. |
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> revdep-rebuild |
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> -Richard |
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Ah, thanks. revdep-rebuild it is. |
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Tony |
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