On 19 January 2008, Dale wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > after the painful and time-consuming creation of > > /etc/portage/package.unmask for KDE 4, <emerge --pretend --verbose > > "=kde-base/kde-meta-4.0.0" tells me: [blocks B ] > > <kde-base/kdebase-3.5.7-r6 (is blocking > > kde-base/kdelibs-4.0.0) > > > > I do not have emerge kdebase-3.5.7 but kdebase-3.5.8. The3refore, I > > cannot unemerge 3.5.7. How can I work around this? > > > > Uwe > > For future reference, check out autounmask. I found out about it the > other day. I have not used it yet but I'm hopeful it works.
I'll have look into autounmask. > > Also, there is a thread on the forums about this, I think you have to > have 3.5.8* version to do this. Not sure why tho. Isn't KDE 4.0 > slotted? Can't you have 3.5 AND 4.0 installed and select which version > you want to log into? Exactly. So why is kdebase-3.5.7-r6 (which is not even installed here) blocking kdelibs-4.0.0? Uwe -- If a man speaks in a forest, and no woman listens to him, is he still lying? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
