Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > I was looooooking 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 approach. > Or, in the gentoo docs for split kde ebuilds there is a longish compound > command to find all packages from a previous kde-3 slot and remove them. > Adapt > that for what you want and redirect the output to a file in package.mask Hmmmm, I'll look at this, cause once I get this system happy and everything critical supported, I've got more than a dozen workstations to permanently move to kde 4. I have some time before I do this so more research is warranted. > Unfortunately, there is no support in portage that I know of to directly mask > out a chunk of the tree. You have to fudge it. I like 'sliver bullets'. As a kid growing up in rural Florida, I have lots of success putting meat on the table with a 30-30 and silver bullets.... One shot and dinner was on the table. That mentality has never disappeared. For now I settled for masking off kdelibs in package.mask. With some fortuitous guidance and research, I probably can cobble together a list of 5 or 6 key kde 3.5 packages to mask off and that'll cover 98% of kde 3.5. Simple, easy and DONE. Any other ideas or thoughts are welcome. Once I cut a machine over to kde 4.x I want to be done with kde 3.5* on that machine. James
