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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:48:02
Message-Id: ggh6ms$qop$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't by "Arttu V."
1 Arttu V. wrote:
2 > On 11/25/08, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
3 >> Zsitvai János wrote:
4 >>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
5 >>> wrote:
6 >>>> So you're saying I must spend 1 hour to mask all the stuff? (Not joking,
7 >>>> the list is big, I have to do "emerge -av world" each time and see the
8 >>>> package, mask it, emerge again, mask it, emerge again, mask it, ad
9 >>>> infinitum. This is not funny :P)
10 >>> eix -C kde-|grep "\[[IU]\]"|awk -F" " '{print $2 ":4.1"}' >
11 >>> /etc/portage/package.mask/kde4
12 >> package.mask is a file here, not a directory.
13 >
14 > Maybe you should use existing, old portage features: slots.
15 >
16 > Add ":3.5" to the end of all those "kde-base/"-starting lines in
17 > package.keywords, and you'll accept unstable from slot 3.5 but not
18 > from 4.1 (current kde4 slot).
19
20 Thank you. It's funny though that portage-2.1.4.5 somehow kept the 4.1
21 slot out of the way even though I didn't specify a slot in
22 package.keywords. That's why I assumed there's some bug here.