Daniel Frey wrote: > 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 qt5 >> media-libs/phonon-vlc qt5 >> >> Then I had to remove >kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta-4.15 from >> package.mask to satisfy "(dependency required by >> "kde-base/kdebase-startkde-4.11.22::gentoo" >> [ebuild])". Guess what? Of course - it wanted to install the whole set of >> [qt5 >> packages. >> >> So I'm still stuck. 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 attached screen shots of qt4 and qt5 versions of KMail to show what >> I mean. The qt5 version is as close as I can get to the qt4. >> > > I just tried and no luck here either. I made that list back in April > when plasma made my machine unusable (hence the "might not work now" > comment.) It's been several months now but I really don't want to go and > try plasma again and waste days trying to get my machine usable again. > I'm just not going to do any updates (and I guess I should do a stage4 > backup in case I have to restore...) > > 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.
It seems so. Really embarassing is however, that the dependencies for even already installed packages have been changed under the hood: ===================== %< =================== $ diff -u `locate kactivities-4.13.3-r2.ebuild` --- /var/db/pkg/kde-base/kactivities-4.13.3-r2/kactivities-4.13.3-r2.ebuild 2016-03-09 17:26:34.581846384 +0100 +++ /var/db/portage/gentoo/kde-base/kactivities/kactivities-4.13.3-r2.ebuild 2016-07-08 22:21:51.000000000 +0200 @@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ DESCRIPTION="KDE Activity Manager" -KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm ~ppc ~ppc64 x86 ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux" +KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm x86 ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux" IUSE="" RDEPEND=" - || ( $(add_kdebase_dep kactivitymanagerd) <kde- frameworks/kactivities-5.20.0:5 kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd:5 ) + kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd:5 " src_configure() { ===================== %< =================== There was not even a revision bump. For me this is one of the unfriendliest and annoying actions in the last decade of Gentoo (and I am even longer using it). > I did try many things trying to get plasma working but everything I > tried had no results. Plasma would crash even if you didn't do anything > (no keyboard or mouse input.) > > Dan Jörg