[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-25 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > I was looking for a silver bullet, > > so I can just auto prevent installing anything that > > uses kde 3 * > In that case, I would find a convenient package.keywords in a kde overlay and > symlink to it from /etc/portage/package.mask/ Interesting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 07:16:03 James wrote: > > Avoiding having kde-3.5 stuff installed is exactly the same as avoiding > > having firefox installed - don't emerge it. > > Yep, I get it, manual_labor. > > > I was looking for a silver bullet, > so I can just auto prevent installing anything

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-24 Thread James
Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > Actually you can probably just do "emerge -pv --depclean kdelibs:3.5" > to see what depends on kdelibs:3.5 Yes, agreed. However, since this system is only for kde-4.x software, It be really cool and easy to just find a way to mask off anything and everything

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-24 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > Where I'm confused is can I have 2 versions > > of kdelibs installed at the same time? > Yes, you can. Right, got it. Can be done, but henders move to a clean, 100% kde4 installation. > Avoiding having kde-3.5 stuff installed is exactly the same as avo

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-24 Thread wireless
Volker Armin Hemmann googlemail.com> writes: > > Where I'm confused is can I have 2 versions > > of kdelibs installed at the same time? > > My gut tells me NO? > your guts tell you wrong > a) kde3 is installed into /usr/kde/3.5 > b) kde4 is either in /usr or /usr/kde/4.X (kdeprefix useflag, use

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
James wrote: Hello, Confidence is high that I've mucked_up this upgrade to kde-4.2.1. I was content to leave the system at 3.5.9 and while I was messing around, I guess I triggered a kde 4.2.1 install (I had started the upgrade and decide to wait some weeks ago.) Long story short, I'm now run