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On Wednesday 25 March 2009 07:16:03 James wrote: |
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> > Avoiding having kde-3.5 stuff installed is exactly the same as avoiding |
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> > having firefox installed - don't emerge it. |
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> Yep, I get it, manual_labor. |
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> I was looooooking for a silver bullet, |
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> so I can just auto prevent installing anything that |
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> uses kde 3 *.... |
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> On this system, I install a lot of random software |
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> just to test it out. Sure I can manually check for |
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> any kde 3.5 dependancies, but it would just be |
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> easier to find a way to mask off all kde 3.5, methinks, |
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> and then deal with that exceptional piece of vintage |
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> software on a one off basis.... |
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OK, I see where you are coming from. |
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In that case, I would find a convenient package.keywords in a kde overlay and |
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symlink to it from /etc/portage/package.mask/ |
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Or, in the gentoo docs for split kde ebuilds there is a longish compound |
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command to find all packages from a previous kde-3 slot and remove them. Adapt |
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that for what you want and redirect the output to a file in package.mask |
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Unfortunately, there is no support in portage that I know of to directly mask |
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out a chunk of the tree. You have to fudge it. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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