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On Thursday 01 March 2007 22:54:43 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> Your problem is that you are trying to mix them. That is difficult or |
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> impossible and is AFAIK not supported. Either remove all your monolithic |
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> packages and install the split equivalents (the -meta packages help here) |
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> or remove all your split packages and install all the monolithic packages |
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> you need. |
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Quoting [1]: "Split and monolithic ebuilds can be mixed freely. The only |
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restriction is that a monolithic ebuild can't be installed at the same time |
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as a split ebuild deriving from it. There are blocking dependencies in the |
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ebuilds that enforce this, so you can do anything emerge allows you to do." |
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So emerging say kdebase (monolithic) and kpdf (split but not from kdebase) at |
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the same time is quite supported. It just prevents you from emerging either |
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of kde-meta or kde since they are all split or all monolithic respectively. |
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I'm in favour of removing the monolithic ebuilds too though. They seem to |
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cause more confusion than they are worth. :) |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml |
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Bo Andresen |
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