On Saturday 13 Aug 2016 22:54:19 Robin Atwood wrote: > On Saturday 13 August 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday 13 Aug 2016 20:56:50 Robin Atwood wrote: > > > And the next problem: > > > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy > > > "kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers:5" have been masked. > > > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > > > request: - kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers-5.7.3::gentoo > > > (masked > > > by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword) > > > - kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers-5.6.5::gentoo (masked by: > > > package.mask) > > > > > > (dependency required by "kde-base/kdebase-startkde-4.11.22- > > > r2::gentoo[wallpapers]" [installed]) > > > (dependency required by "@selected" [set]) > > > (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) > > > > > > Why does kdebase-startkde:4 want plasma-workspace-wallpapers:5? has > > > anyone solved this yet? > > > > I don't know, but the ebuild calls version 5 explicitly. > > > > What happens if you add USE=-wallpapers to startkde in package.use? > > I wondered about that but thought I might end up with no wallpapers. :(
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. -- Rgds Peter