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 that

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

2009-03-25 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at 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/

[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

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

2009-03-24 Thread wireless
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at 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

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

2009-03-24 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at 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

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

2009-03-24 Thread James
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at 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