Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : goodbye good riddance

2009-04-15 Thread Jorge Morais
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:56:20 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: While not a KDE user I echo your thoughts. I'm personally a bit worried about Gentoo overlords sort of pushing this hald thing with reasons like 'Gnome's automounting depends on it'. Where have you got that from? I have

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : goodbye good riddance

2009-04-14 Thread Philip Webb
I unmerged all the kde-base/...-4.2.1 pkgs preparatory to remerging them with USE=kdeprefix it hit me: why am I wasting time on this rubbish ? KDE 4.2.1 is not -- as someone bluntly pointed out -- a successor to 3.5 : it's a whole new concept, not yet clear even in the minds of its developers.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : goodbye good riddance

2009-04-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I unmerged all the kde-base/...-4.2.1 pkgs preparatory to remerging them with USE=kdeprefix it hit me: why am I wasting time on this rubbish ? KDE 4.2.1 is not -- as someone bluntly pointed out -- a successor to 3.5 :

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : goodbye good riddance

2009-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 14/04/09 Philip Webb said: I cb content with Fluxbox, if KDE 3.5 disappears one day, /me hugs fluxbox Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : goodbye good riddance

2009-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 14/04/09 Mark Knecht said: While not a KDE user I echo your thoughts. I'm personally a bit worried about Gentoo overlords sort of pushing this hald thing with reasons like 'Gnome's automounting depends on it'. If I wanted automounting that's OK, but what if I don't? Eventually someone will

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : goodbye good riddance

2009-04-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: On 14/04/09 Mark Knecht said: While not a KDE user I echo your thoughts. I'm personally a bit worried about Gentoo overlords sort of pushing this hald thing with reasons like 'Gnome's automounting depends on