Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.5 packages blocking each other

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 22:45:49 schrieb Francisco Ares:

> And how do I tell if an ebuild is monolithic or not?

The monolithic ones install larger parts of KDE, and usually have the same 
names as the original source packages offered at KDE.org.

The split ebuilds, well, split those packages into their individual 
applications, so you have ebuilds for konqueror (which is also part of 
kdenetwork) or kmail (kdepim). In addition, there are the "-meta" ebuilds, 
which have the same name as the monolitic ones, but with -meta appended 
(kdepim-meta). Those usually install the same applications than monolithic 
ebuilds, but as split ebuilds.

So, when you install kde, you get a complete KDE from monolithic ebuilds and 
when you install kde-meta, you get a complete KDE from split ebuilds.

That's also the reason why they block each other. When you have kdepim 
installed, you already got kmail, so you shouldn't install kmail from the 
split ebuild again.

HTH...

	Dirk