2009/11/3 Jörg Schaible <[email protected]> > >>> # Samuli Suominen <[email protected]> (16 Oct 2009) > >>> # Fails to build with KDE4 installed wrt bug #277427. > >>> # Masked for removal in 30 days. > >>> net-news/eventwatcher > >>> kde-misc/kisdnwatch > >> ... > >>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279823 > >> > >> Does kde team changed their plans to move kde3 together with all kde3 > >> applications to dedicated overlay? If not, then why we just drop this > >> applications? > >> > > > > No, the plan hasn't changed. These won't build with _stable_ KDE4 > > installed, and has no reverse deps. As such, they will be killed. Only > > the functional KDE3 programs will be moved to overlay. > > Sorry, I cannot follow this argumentation. In the office I need Exchange > integration and all I can hope is, that it is ready for KDE 4.5. Unless > this time, I have to stick with KDE3. > > However, with you removing all those apps, you also remove quite some that I > use and need also. If you do not move them to the KDE3 overlay, my KDE3 > setup is quite similar useless as KDE4 and the KDE3 overlay is simply a > farce. If I use KDE3 only, I do *not* have KDE4 on my machine i.e. those > apps *will* build without problems. You would have better add some build > dependency with <kdelibs-4 to effectively block those ebuilds when KDE4 is > installed.
You should join the kde-sunset (aka kde3) overlay team and maintain those packages, with the proper kde4 blocks, in that overlay. It expressly exists for people who need legacy applications. -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) ______________________________________________________
