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From: Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.5 packages blocking each other
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:33:02
Message-Id: 543f3b9c0906141832y5ae78e1i1fbe7f6d0ec025ec@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.5 packages blocking each other by Alan McKinnon
1 I've found out that there are some packages out of kde-basse that are
2 pulling 3.5.10 packages while they're still masked ~x86
3
4 One is Amarok. Another, probably, is Ktorrent.
5
6 Anyone has seen it or am I the only one not using KDE 4 ;-) ?
7
8 Best regards to all
9 Francisco
10
11 On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>wrote:
12
13 > On Saturday 13 June 2009 01:54:45 Francisco Ares wrote:
14 > > Thanks a lot!
15 >
16 > It's not completely obvious from Dirk's post (what he said is completely
17 > accurate though), but kde-3.5.10 will not receive monolithic ebuilds (dev
18 > decision). If you want kde-3.5.10, there is only one way to do it -
19 >
20 > Unmerge your existing kde monolithic packages
21 > Rememerge the new kde split packages
22 >
23 > There's a good migration guide at gentoo.org, called "Migrating to KDE
24 > split
25 > ebuilds" or some such. A quick search will find it for you.
26 >
27 >
28 >
29 >
30 > >
31 > > Francisco
32 > >
33 > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dirk Heinrichs
34 > <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de>wrote:
35 > > > Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 22:45:49 schrieb Francisco Ares:
36 > > > > And how do I tell if an ebuild is monolithic or not?
37 > > >
38 > > > The monolithic ones install larger parts of KDE, and usually have the
39 > > > same names as the original source packages offered at KDE.org.
40 > > >
41 > > > The split ebuilds, well, split those packages into their individual
42 > > > applications, so you have ebuilds for konqueror (which is also part of
43 > > > kdenetwork) or kmail (kdepim). In addition, there are the "-meta"
44 > > > ebuilds, which have the same name as the monolitic ones, but with -meta
45 > > > appended (kdepim-meta). Those usually install the same applications
46 > than
47 > > > monolithic ebuilds, but as split ebuilds.
48 > > >
49 > > > So, when you install kde, you get a complete KDE from monolithic
50 > ebuilds
51 > > > and
52 > > > when you install kde-meta, you get a complete KDE from split ebuilds.
53 > > >
54 > > > That's also the reason why they block each other. When you have kdepim
55 > > > installed, you already got kmail, so you shouldn't install kmail from
56 > the
57 > > > split ebuild again.
58 > > >
59 > > > HTH...
60 > > >
61 > > > Dirk
62 >
63 > --
64 > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
65 >
66 >
67
68
69 --
70 "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you
71 and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one
72 idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." -
73 George Bernard Shaw

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Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.5 packages blocking each other Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>