Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 20:19:10
Message-Id: 570D582A.5000209@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing by Neil Bothwick
1 On 12/04/2016 22:01, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:31:28 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
3 >
4 >>> I have ksnapshot in @world, so depclean didn't touch it. It
5 >>> still works fine. Spectacle and ksnapshot block each other, but if
6 >>> you unmerge spectacle you may be able to get a working ksnapshot
7 >>> back, at least for now.
8 >>
9 >> I know, had to copy a meta-ebuild ( kdegraphics-meta ) into my local
10 >> overlay and modify it to pick ksnapshot though. As the later version
11 >> only allows Spectacle.
12 >
13 > I don't use the meta packages, preferring to define my own set with the
14 > packages I want, so I wasn't aware of Spectacle. I've just tried it an is
15 > seems to do much the same as ksnapshot, just with a lot more white space
16 > in the UI - but WTF do they block one another, they're only screen shot
17 > programs?
18
19 There doesn't seem to be a good technical reason, maybe it's as simple
20 as the maintainer thought there shouldn't be two competing apps with the
21 same functionality?
22
23 I unblocked them here, and re-emerged both. Nothing extra was pulled in,
24 so there are no conflicting libs.
25
26 Unfortunately I can't attach a screenshot as proof - both remove their
27 own window to do the capture :-)
28
29
30 --
31 Alan McKinnon
32 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>