Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

[Robin Atwood]

On Sunday 14 August 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 13 Aug 2016 22:54:19 Robin Atwood wrote:
> > On Saturday 13 August 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > On Saturday 13 Aug 2016 20:56:50 Robin Atwood wrote:
> > > > And the next problem:
> > > >
> > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy
> > > > "kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers:5" have been masked.
> > > > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> > > > request: - kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers-5.7.3::gentoo
> > > > (masked
> > > > by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword)
> > > > - kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers-5.6.5::gentoo (masked by:
> > > > package.mask)
> > > >
> > > > (dependency required by "kde-base/kdebase-startkde-4.11.22-
> > > > r2::gentoo[wallpapers]" [installed])
> > > > (dependency required by "@selected" [set])
> > > > (dependency required by "@world" [argument])
> > > >
> > > > Why does kdebase-startkde:4 want plasma-workspace-wallpapers:5? has
> > > > anyone solved this yet?
> > >
> > > I don't know, but the ebuild calls version 5 explicitly.
> > >
> > > What happens if you add USE=-wallpapers to startkde in package.use?
> >
> > I wondered about that but thought I might end up with no wallpapers. :(
>
> Well, either you can try it to see what happens, maybe putting it back
> afterwards, or you can remove that line from the ebuild - again,
> temporarily. Or try the kde-sunset overlay as Dan suggests.
>
> It's becoming steadily harder to stick with KDE-4 in Gentoo. I gave up a
> few weeks ago, once I'd found a desktop arrangement to suit me.

Using -wallpapers worked and I still have wallpapers. 'layman -L' finds no 
kde-sunset. I suppose I will at some stage have to install KDE5 on a laptop; 
will KMail 4.4 still work?

Cheers
Robin

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