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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:39:04
Message-Id: 20091014133853.7929c0a6@majikthise
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4? by Peter Humphrey
1 On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:30:06 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2
3 > In the last few days some parts of KDE v4 seem to have been moved into
4 > the stable tree, but on some of my boxes I want to exclude kde:4 (but
5 > not qt:4).
6 >
7 > What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to exclude the
8 > whole of kde:4? I did start masking each package separately, but that's
9 > far too much work - I'd finish up with an entry for every kde package
10 > that has a version 4. Also, "kde:4", which seems like the right thing
11 > to specify, is an invalid package atom according to eix.
12
13 If you've installed via kde-meta, either mask kde-meta:4 or change the
14 world entry to kde-meta:3.5.
15
16 Otherwise masking the 4.x versions of all KDE packages in world should do
17 most of what you need
18
19 grep ^kde-base /var/lib/portage/world | sed s/$/:4/ >/etc/portage/package.mask/kde4
20
21
22 --
23 Neil Bothwick
24
25 Windows Error:01F Reserved for future mistakes.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4? Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>