On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:59:16 +0000, Stroller wrote: > >> The message posted to Gentoo-dev suggests that Qt3 is going away right > >> about NOW, but this doesn't seem to add up to what I'm seeing. > > > > The message says it will be masked on Feb 21st and removed on March 21st. > > So you have eleven days to add it to package.unmask and nearly six weeks > > before you need to add the kde-sunset overlay. That's assuming the > > ebuilds that depend on QT3 haven't been updated to wiork with QT4, which > > is highly likely as that would require upstream changes for most of them > > too. > > > > It's a minor inconvenience, but they are giving us a decent warning. > > > > > > -- > > Neil Bothwick > > So am I at any great risk doing an emerge -C qt-3.3 and then expecting > revdep-rebuild to fix up mythtv-0.21 with qt-4 using whatever it has > ffor qt3-support? > > I'm __really__ not ready to upgrade my whole MythTV setup 0.22 if 0.21 > requires qt-3 and the qt3 support stuff in qt4 doesn't work. That > would be very painful for me even given 6 weeks. > > - Mark
quickpkg all your crap emerge -C qt-3 emerge -C your mythtv stuff emerge qt4 set emerge current mythtv stuff it works? congratulation! it doesn't? just unmerge the new stuff and then emerge the binpkgs quickpkg created. Which takes maybe 5 minutes.
