Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5 stuff and media-libs/mlt conflict

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 05 January 2016 19:09:10 lee wrote:
> Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> writes:
> > On Tuesday 05 January 2016 14:34:38 lee wrote:
> >> Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> writes:
> >> > On Tuesday 05 January 2016 04:26:20 Dale wrote:
> >> >> Howdy,
> >> >>
> >> >> I was going to try out some of the KDE5 stuff just to see if I'm
> >> >> going
> >> >> to like it or not.  Anyway, I added a BUNCH of stuff to a keywords
> >> >> file
> >> >> related to KDE and got past that part.  I think I got them all.  Now
> >> >> I
> >> >
> >> >> get this:
> >> > --->8
> >> >
> >> > I was afraid to mess up my KDE4 system with KDE5 in some sort of
> >> > parallel
> >> > fashion, so I found some spare disk space and installed KDE5 into it,
> >> > using the kde overlay and the .../desktop/plasma profile. It's much
> >> > easier to
> >>
> >> How did you manage to install that?  I tried it yesterday (without the
> >> overlays) and found it impossible to resolve the dependency problems,
> >> so
> >> I ended up installing the 'normal' kde (I'm running out of time).  I'd
> >> rather switch that over to plasma from the beginning.
> >
> > I found I needed the overlay. It greatly simplifies the dependencies. It
> > still isn't perfect, as changes occur during development, but it's
> > definitely well worth having.
> >
> > Here's my current package.keywords:
> > [...]
> >
> > I've no doubt that after the next overlay update I'll have to add or
> > remove some things.
>
> It seemed to me that it's daring to try this because it's a work in
> progress, and with the overly, it seemed to be even worse.  So I went
> with the "normal" kde when I found out that plasma it doesn't work.
> That's already painful to install.  Install on a slow machine, and you
> can't even try much simply because it takes too long.

That's why I wanted to keep it separate. By building it in a chroot I could 
forget about it while it was emerging and continue using the main system.

> Should I try to upgrade?  That might take another day, which I don't
> have ...

I wouldn't. As you say, it's nowhere near finished yet and it's likely to 
make an awful mess of your existing setup.

-- 
Rgds
Peter