Duncan, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > Igor Korot posted on Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:21:50 -0800 as excerpted: > >>> Let's see here. Ignore packages with the -meta suffix, first off, >>> since they're just aggregators for other packages. Secondly, since >>> Portage's dependency identification sometimes messes up in --keep-going >>> runs, attempt to individually re-emerge any package that didn't get far >>> enough to produce a log. Start with the kde-base packages: >>> >>>> * (kde-base/kdm-3.5.10::kde-sunset, ebuild scheduled for merge) >>>> * (kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10-r5::kde-sunset, ebuild scheduled >>>> for merge) * (kde-base/konqueror-3.5.10::kde-sunset, ebuild >>>> scheduled for merge) >>>> * (kde-base/kdesktop-3.5.10::kde-sunset, ebuild scheduled for merge) >>>> * (kde-base/konsole-3.5.10::kde-sunset, ebuild scheduled for merge) >>> >>> Most of these packages are important to the basic functioning of KDE, >>> and you need to get them merged if you want a functioning desktop. >>> Then look at the extras: >> >> Here, unmasking kcontrol fixed everything. All 5 packages are now >> compiled and installed correctly. > > =:^) > >>> These packages are less important, and if you can live with the idea of >>> using a different (probably GTK-based) mailer and calendar application, >>> you don't absolutely need them. > > I meant to reply to this point earlier and forgot. > > Due to kdepim4 akonadifying everything, I've dumped everything related to > it, here. For me, that was kmail and akregator. FWIW, I've been very > happy with the (gtk-based) claws-mail I replaced both of them with. It > can be noted, however, that I prefer to keep mail and feeds separate, so > while I use claws-mail with its feed-reader plugin for feeds (replacing > akregator), I run two separate claws-mail instances, using different icon > themes for each so I can tell the difference in the system tray icons (in > particular, otherwise I don't really care). Getting two instances to run > required setting up a couple environmental variables in a script-wrapper > that I run to start them up, otherwise the first one intercepts the > commands intended for the second, but that was simple enough, once I > figured out what was happening. > > So if you /do/ happen to be looking for a new mail (and/or feeds) client, > I can say I've been very happy with claws-mail. In particular, as with > most MH-mail format mail clients, its emphasis is on user scriptable > extensibility, which means it's very unlikely to have the devs up and > decide to break everything just to go chasing something new, as both kde4 > and now kdepim4 have done, as that would break all the user's scripts! > After being forced to leave kmail after nearly a decade due to its devs' > fascination with shiny, that's an even more significant feature for this > gentooer than simple scriptable extensibility is likely to be for the > /average/ gentooer. =:^) > > If your mail providers all have IMAP (or you control your own), there's > also the relatively new trojita, with a gentoo dev as upstream, too. > Unfortunately, my MSPs are all POP3 based, so that wouldn't be an easy > switch, here, but I was still tempted, and probably would have setup my > own IMAP and used fetchmail or whatever, if I hadn't found claws-mail > such a good match. Trojita is qt4 based, and the author recently blogged > (carried by the gentoo-planet feed) about a qt5 conference he was > attending, so it shouldn't get stuck with an old qt as kde3 did.
I can perfectly well live without the mail/calendar/office stuff. I just need KDE to test some things. AFAIU, I have a working install of this DM, just kopete fails. Everything else is either not important or can be substituted. Thank you. > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman > >
