2008/11/23 ABCD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Duncan wrote: >> I've chosen not to try the not-full-releases since I gave up on the betas >> earlier. Additionally... well let's just put it this way, paludis, no >> way, no how, so that has been another encouragement not to do the KDE SVN >> stuff since the Gentoo/KDE folks started requiring paludis for it. Thus, >> I'm sticking with 4.1.x since that's what's released. > > The paludis requirement has been completely dropped at this point - to > get the >=4.1.79 or SVN versions of KDE, you just need to use the > kde-crazy overlay, which works with any EAPI-2-compatible PM. (-4.1.79 > is keyworded ~arch, -9999 needed to be keyworded "**" in p.kewords, and > - -4.1.80 is p.masked until it is released upstream) > this is not the genkde overlay based on kdebuild system. this system is still usable only on paludis. i can say that in some way it's a little better than the old eapi system but still, the non ability for binpkg of paludis is bad when you have issues mainstream, and in a development svn you'll most likely to have them at least once every two weeks. so paludis forces you to manually resync for a previous version and hope it works. sometimes you might end up doing more than one resync per package, and for big ones like amarok, k3b kdepim is meaning a lot of headache. at lest with binpkgs you can always revert back when something is not working.
-- dott. ing. beso
