Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5 stuff and media-libs/mlt conflict

[Dale]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 January 2016 04:26:20 Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I was going to try out some of the KDE5 stuff just to see if I'm going
>> to like it or not.  Anyway, I added a BUNCH of stuff to a keywords file
>> related to KDE and got past that part.  I think I got them all.  Now I
>> get this:
> --->8
>
> I was afraid to mess up my KDE4 system with KDE5 in some sort of parallel
> fashion, so I found some spare disk space and installed KDE5 into it, using
> the kde overlay and the .../desktop/plasma profile. It's much easier to
> manage the two systems separately (dual-boot), and there's far less risk of
> running, say, two versions of KMail on the same data [1]. I have all my
> usual user's stuff in ~/common, a separate partition that's mounted on
> whichever home partition is in use.
>
> There was a helpful web page somewhere too but I can't find it now - sorry
> Dale.
>
> 1. I'm not saying the versions of KMail do differ, but they may later during
> development of KDE5.
>


Since I install with kde-meta, kmail is installed here but I do not use
Kmail.  I use Seamonkey for my emails.  I haven't used Kmail is many
years. 

This info may be good for others to think about tho. 

Dale

:-)  :-)