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

[Alan McKinnon]

On 17/09/2016 15:26, Robin Atwood wrote:
> On Monday 15 August 2016, Robin Atwood wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 14 August 2016, Daniel Frey wrote:
>
>> > On 08/14/2016 05:12 AM, Robin Atwood wrote:
>
>> > > 'layman -L' finds no kde-sunset.
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>> >
>
>> > I had that problem too, it's not listed there.
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>> >
>
>> > If you want to use it, create /etc/portage/repos.conf/kde-sunset.conf
>
>> > with these contents:
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>> >
>
>> > [kde-sunset]
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>> > auto-sync = yes
>
>> > location = /var/local/overlays/kde-sunset
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>> > masters = gentoo
>
>> > sync-type = git
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>> > sync-uri = https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/kde-sunset.git
>
>> >
>
>> > Dan
>
>>
>
>> Dan-
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>
>
> I tried it and got:
>
>
>
> # layman -s kde-sunset
>
>
>
> * Fetching remote list...
>
> * Fetch Ok
>
>
>
> * Syncing selected overlay(s)...
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/layman/api.py", line 394, in sync
>
> odb = db.select(ovl)
>
> File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/layman/dbbase.py", line 260, in
> select
>
> raise UnknownOverlayException(overlay)
>
> layman.dbbase.UnknownOverlayException: Exception: Overlay "kde-sunset"
> does not exist.
>
>
>
> This is becoming a problem because now I also get when updating Gentoo:
>
>
>
> # emerge -uDv @world
>
>
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
>
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
>
>
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd:5" have
> been masked.
>
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> request:
>
> - kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd-5.7.5::gentoo (masked by: package.mask,
> ~amd64 keyword)
>
> - kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd-5.7.4::gentoo (masked by: package.mask,
> ~amd64 keyword)
>
> - kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd-5.6.5::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
>
>
>
> (dependency required by "kde-base/kactivities-4.13.3-r2::gentoo"
> [installed])
>
> (dependency required by "kde-apps/okular-16.04.3::gentoo[kde]" [ebuild])
>
> (dependency required by "@selected" [set])
>
> (dependency required by "@world" [argument])
>
>
>
> looking at the kactivities ebuild I see:
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>
>
> RDEPEND="
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> kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd:5
>
> "
>
>
>
> So KDE4 users are no longer allowed to update Gentoo?


What a peculiar odd thing to say. You might want to revisit your word
choice there. A better expression might be

"if I have KDE4 installed and don't want to have KDE5, then due to the
fact that upstream does not support KDE4 at all and that few if any
gentoo devs are interested in maintaining KDE4 ebuilds, blockers and
deps have now tipped over the edge and mathematically there is no valid
update path left. Oh dear; the devs did say if I wantot carry on using
KDE4 that bitrot will bite me. I guess that happened now."

Because that is probably what happened. You let your computer stay
static will the ecosystem moved on, and now you get to keep all the
broken bits. It sunds crude but at this point you are on your own.
Someone needs to maintain those ebuilds so that the system can continue
to work, your best choice right now for who that person is, is you.


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com