On 08/28/2009 03:17 PM, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote:
Hi all.
Reading http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml#kde_portage
I found the following sentence:
8x------
KDE 4 is the current KDE version supported by upstream.
8x------
However, if I try to install KDE 4.2, it says KDE 4.2 is masked...
Is it right? Do I have to unmask it to install KDE 4.2, even if it is
the current KDE version supported by upstream?
(I tried to follow the instruction and unmasking using the provided
file, but I met lot of other masked packages...)
Should I wait for KDE 4 to become unmasked?
It's not "masked", as that refers to hard-masking. When portage says
"masked by keyword" it means it's simply keyworded "~arch" instead of
"arch". To install it, you don't have to "unmask" it
(/etc/portage/package.unmask), you have to keyword it (and that's
/etc/portage/package.keywords).
Whether you decide to wait for it to be stabilized (put in "arch") is up
to you. If you decide not to wait, don't install 4.2.4. Go for 4.3.0
instead since 4.2.4 will be removed from portage at some point and will
never be stabilized. Stabilization will happen with 4.3.x.
