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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:31:32
Message-Id: 200910112330.29782.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4? by Peter Humphrey
1 On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:04:57 Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > On Sunday 11 October 2009 17:23:14 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > since everything kde depends on kdelibs you could mask that
4 >
5 > I tried that, but of course the problem is that I get a whole load of
6 > errors because things that want to be installed can't be. I need to know
7 > how to prevent those things being installed at all.
8 >
9
10 Have you considered simply not installing them at all? If you don't want
11 apache, cups, syslog-ng and bind you don't take any special steps, you simply
12 don't emerge them.
13
14 Unless of course you do want kde:3.5 (I don't recall if you mentioned that or
15 not).
16
17 OT: I really like kde:4 myself, but it's such a different product to kde:3.5
18 that I honestly feel it's official name should have been kde4. If the kde devs
19 had done that, your issue would simply never have happened. This versioning is
20 causing problems for many people, you are not the only one wanting to avoid
21 kde:4
22
23 --
24 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4? Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>