[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

[James]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:


> > I was looooooking for a silver bullet,
> > so I can just auto prevent installing anything that
> > uses kde 3 *....


> In that case, I would find a convenient package.keywords in a kde overlay and
> symlink to it from /etc/portage/package.mask/

Interesting approach.


> Or, in the gentoo docs for split kde ebuilds there is a longish compound
> command to find all packages from a previous kde-3 slot and remove them. Adapt
> that for what you want and redirect the output to a file in package.mask


Hmmmm,

I'll look at this, cause once I get this system
happy and everything critical supported,
I've got more than a dozen workstations to
permanently move to  kde 4.


I have some time before I do this so
more research is warranted.

> Unfortunately, there is no support in portage that I know of to directly mask
> out a chunk of the tree. You have to fudge it.

I like 'sliver bullets'. As a kid growing up in rural Florida,
I have lots of success putting meat on the table
with a 30-30 and silver bullets.... One shot
and dinner was on the table.

That mentality has never disappeared.


For now I settled for masking off kdelibs in
package.mask. With some fortuitous guidance and
research, I probably can cobble together a list
of 5 or 6 key kde 3.5 packages to mask off
and that'll cover 98% of kde 3.5. Simple,
easy and DONE.


Any other ideas or thoughts are welcome.
Once I cut a machine over to kde 4.x
I want to be done with kde 3.5* on that
machine.


James