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From: Abhay Kedia <abhay.ilugd@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge --buildpkgonly world" won't go: kde metapackage problem?
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:56:29
Message-Id: 200601230018.17808.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] "emerge --buildpkgonly world" won't go: kde metapackage problem? by Robert Persson
1 On Sunday 22 January 2006 23:51, Robert Persson wrote:
2 >
3 > The reason I want to avoid installing straight away is because I'm doing a
4 > kde upgrade this time (3.4.3 to 3.5) and want to avoid a broken desktop,
5 > but could kde in fact be the very source of the problem? Is emerge getting
6 > confused by the split kde metafiles again?
7 >
8 I don't know the solution to the buildpkg problem but moving to KDE 3.5 should
9 not break your desktop. KDE 3.5 is slotted to install along with 3.4.3. Thus,
10 while you will install 3.5, you will still have the existing KDE 3.4.3.
11
12 --
13 Regards,
14 Abhay