On Sunday 14 Aug 2016 19:12:43 Robin Atwood wrote: > On Sunday 14 August 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Well, either you can try it to see what happens, maybe putting it back > > afterwards, or you can remove that line from the ebuild - again, > > temporarily. Or try the kde-sunset overlay as Dan suggests. > > > > It's becoming steadily harder to stick with KDE-4 in Gentoo. I gave up a > > few weeks ago, once I'd found a desktop arrangement to suit me. > > Using -wallpapers worked and I still have wallpapers.
USE=wallpapers is not the same thing as installing a wallpapers package. It looks in this case as though setting the flag will cause packages to be installed as part of *-meta, but I dare say it's just a convenience to save one operation. > 'layman -L' finds no kde-sunset. Google suggests it's in git nowadays. > I suppose I will at some stage have to install KDE5 on a > laptop; will KMail 4.4 still work? It does here, though not on a laptop - well, as well as can be expected, that is. -- Rgds Peter
