John H. Moe writes:
> Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Roy Wright writes:
> >> 4) recustomize kde as the ~/.kde will not be migrated
> >
> > I really hope I can just copy .kde4.2 to .kde4 and all (okay, most)
> > settings will be kept. I think it just _should_ work. Customizing all
> > over again every time a new KDE arrives would be no good.
> Well, I don't know about necessary, but on my box, when I tried to
> update from kde-meta:4.2 to kde-meta:4.3, there were a few blockers that
> wouldn't let it go through, so I ended up unmerging 4.2, then emerging
> 4.3 (which took about 4-6 hours, but I have distcc set up between two
> boxes, so that probably sped things up). However, I seem to remember
> that the blockers were with PyQt, Python and eselect-python; I hadn't
> thought about it, cause I'm still not THAT experienced with Linux in
> general, and Gentoo in particular, but the Python update was a Big Deal,
> so perhaps updating Python before the KDE upgrade would have been a good
> idea. :-P Granted though, I didn't use sets, so it may be a bit
> different for you.
Yes, emerge -p @kde-4.3 shows now problems. Maybe it's because of using
sets, or I already have resolved the blockers, as I already had trouble with
PyQt and such.
> Oh, and I didn't touch my .kde or .kde4 folders during this process, and
> as far as I can tell, it's still using all of my customizations...
This sounds good.
Wonko
