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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 15:40:18
Message-Id: 5436AC54.1050900@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5? by Michael Palimaka
1 Am 09.10.2014 um 09:56 schrieb Michael Palimaka:
2 > On 10/09/2014 04:38 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 >> Am 08.10.2014 um 11:56 schrieb Michael Palimaka:
4 >>> On 10/08/2014 07:31 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
5 >>>> so after spending hours fighting to upgrade boost, I finally got to the
6 >>>> point were portage let me emerge kde-framework.
7 >>>>
8 >>>> I went to bed.
9 >>>>
10 >>>> I woke up 2h later... only 9 packages were installed, the rest skipped
11 >>>> because of wrong gcc.
12 >>>>
13 >>>> Crap like that should be told right at the start.
14 >>> This is carryover from KDE 4. In all packages except kdelibs, the GCC
15 >>> check was in pkg_setup instead of pkg_pretend to save time during
16 >>> dependency resolution (think emerging 300 KDE packages at once).
17 >>>
18 >>> I did some quick tests and I'm not convinced that the small time saving
19 >>> justifies bending the rules and causing the sort of issue you ran into.
20 >>>
21 >>>
22 >>>
23 >> luckily, I did have gcc 4.8 installed, until now I just did not have a
24 >> reason to switch. Afterwards emerging the rest was a non-issue. emerge
25 >> @preserved-rebuild is not happy, of course because of kactivities-4 and
26 >> -5 not liking each other.. let them be unhappy...
27 >>
28 >>
29 >>
30 >>
31 > You can have both at the same time by merging kactivities:4 with minimal
32 > USE flag. That will be handled automatically by a new profile in due course.
33 >
34 >
35 >
36
37 ah, thanks!