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? > > Thank you, > Massimiliano
Just to add a little more info. When it says that KDE is basically only supporting KDE4, that just means there is no more "features" being added to KDE3 and most likely only a few bug or security fixes. They may fix some major problem but they are mostly concentrating on KDE4. If you want to install KDE4, check out autounmask. It is a neat little tool to deal with all the dependencies that KDE4 needs. Dale :-) :-)
