Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-14 Thread daid kahl
What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to exclude the whole of kde:4? I did start masking each package separately, but that's far too much work - I'd finish up with an entry for every kde package that has a version 4. Also, kde:4, which seems like the right thing to specify, is

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:30:06 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: In the last few days some parts of KDE v4 seem to have been moved into the stable tree, but on some of my boxes I want to exclude kde:4 (but not qt:4). What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to exclude the whole of

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 13:38:53 Neil Bothwick wrote: grep ^kde-base /var/lib/portage/world | sed s/$/:4/ /etc/portage/package.mask/kde4 That's neat. Thanks - though it misses anything pulled in by world entries. Meanwhile I've captured the file that Jonathan mentioned - and I've already

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:30:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: Have you considered simply not installing them at all? If you don't want apache, cups, syslog-ng and bind you don't take any special steps, you simply don't emerge them. No, but those are single packages, more or less. KDE is hundreds of

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-12 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:30:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: Have you considered simply not installing them at all? If you don't want apache, cups, syslog-ng and bind you don't take any special steps, you simply don't emerge them. No, but those are single

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 October 2009 11:30:22 Peter Humphrey wrote: OT: I really like kde:4 myself, but it's such a different product to kde:3.5 that I honestly feel it's official name should have been kde4. If the kde devs had done that, your issue would simply never have happened. This versioning

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 October 2009 13:30:06 Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, In the last few days some parts of KDE v4 seem to have been moved into the stable tree, but on some of my boxes I want to exclude kde:4 (but not qt:4). What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to exclude

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-11 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009 13:30:06 schrieb Peter Humphrey: What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to exclude the whole of kde:4? When using paludis, that would be =kde-base/*:4.3 or more general: =category/*:slot Don't know wether this works the same with portage, though.

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 11 Oktober 2009, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, In the last few days some parts of KDE v4 seem to have been moved into the stable tree, but on some of my boxes I want to exclude kde:4 (but not qt:4). What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to exclude the whole

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 11 October 2009 17:23:14 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: since everything kde depends on kdelibs you could mask that I tried that, but of course the problem is that I get a whole load of errors because things that want to be installed can't be. I need to know how to prevent those things

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for masking kde:4?

2009-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:04:57 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009 17:23:14 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: since everything kde depends on kdelibs you could mask that I tried that, but of course the problem is that I get a whole load of errors because things that want to be