Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-07-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 10 July 2016 12:22:32 I wrote: > I've had no trouble with stability, only with ugliness. ...most of which I've eliminated by using the Oxygen theme, Deja Vu sans typeface and the 1,1 strut values I mentioned in another message. However, there is one remaining problem (well, most

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-07-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/07/2016 19:43, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:22:32 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: The KDE project are notorious for that, or at least in my book they are. I told them last year that if I'd allowed an embryonic KDE-4 out the door the way they did I'd have been out of a job

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-07-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:22:32 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > The KDE project are notorious for that, or at least in my book they > are. I told them last year that if I'd allowed an embryonic KDE-4 out > the door the way they did I'd have been out of a job quicker than you > could say "quality

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-07-10 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/10/2016 04:22 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've had no trouble with stability, only with ugliness. > > Thanks again for trying to help, Dan. > No problem! Too bad it didn't work. I remember reading a couple of months ago KDE committed a patch to the constant crash problem but I can't find

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-07-10 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 10 July 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 09 Jul 2016 23:22:49 I wrote: > > On Sunday 10 Jul 2016 04:08:36 Michael Palimaka wrote: > --->8 > > > > This change is correct - we're in the process of cleaning up some old > > > ebuilds at the moment. > > > > > > In this case

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-07-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 09 Jul 2016 19:45:03 Daniel Frey wrote: > Right now my machine is nice and stable. What I don't understand is that > plasma clearly isn't ready for primetime yet (IMHO) yet it seems KDE4 is > not installable on Gentoo anymore. The KDE project are notorious for that, or at least in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-07-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 10 Jul 2016 03:08:43 I wrote: > I don't want to go to KDE-5 until I can find a way to reduce the absurd > amount of vertical space occupied by every line of text. It will still be > ugly, but at least more manageable. I've found what I was looking for. There's a pair of settings for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-07-09 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/09/2016 07:08 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Thanks Dan. I tried your package.mask and thought I was getting somewhere. > But > I had to add these to package.use (I have USE=-qt5 in make.conf): > > sys-auth/polkit-qt qt5 > dev-libs/libdbusmenu-qt qt5 > media-libs/phonon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-07-09 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/09/2016 03:40 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > In fact I tried the separate masking. It led on to having to treat kde-plasma > and kde-frameworks similarly, and before I knew it I was unmasking a load of > packages that don't belong in a KDE-4 system. > > What to try next? > When I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-07-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 09 Jul 2016 23:22:49 I wrote: > On Sunday 10 Jul 2016 04:08:36 Michael Palimaka wrote: --->8 > > This change is correct - we're in the process of cleaning up some old > > ebuilds at the moment. > > > > In this case kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta:5 doesn't imply anything > > KF5-based

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-07-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 10 Jul 2016 04:08:36 Michael Palimaka wrote: > On 09/07/16 23:52, Robin Atwood wrote: > > Attempting to update/world this weekend I get: > > > > > > > > > > > > # emerge -uDv @world > > > > > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > > > > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-07-09 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 09/07/16 23:52, Robin Atwood wrote: > Attempting to update/world this weekend I get: > > > > > > # emerge -uDv @world > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy