Pacho Ramos wrote: > El mié, 04-11-2009 a las 15:48 -0600, Dale escribió: > >> Ben de Groot wrote: >> >>> 2009/11/4 Dale <[email protected]>: >>> >>> >>>> Is it possible to just mask and maybe keyword KDE 3? >>>> >>>> >>> This has already been decided. We are moving it to an overlay. >>> I can't think of a valid reason why you would not use that overlay. >>> >>> >> Because I don't want one more thing to have to deal with. Gentoo is >> enough fun already. >> >> > But, why do you think having kde3 stuff hardmasked in main tree in > unmaintained state will be better than having it on a external > overlay? :-/ > > Also, think about gnome users (like me) that will not need to download > all kde3 ebuilds on every sync :-) Yes, maybe they aren't so much but I > still fail to see why do you think that preserving kde3 hardmasked is > better than using an overlay > > Regards > >
Because I am not familiar with overlays. I have never used one and hope to keep it that way. If it was hardmasked, just run autounmask kde-meta:3.5 or something similar and carry on. Naturally that wouldn't last forever. It would eventually have to go away but most likely it only needs to be there for a couple months, maybe three months. I really believe KDE will be stable and working well in the near future. As for the tree, until recently I was on a very slow dial-up and just syncing the tree took about 45 minutes on average. I never complained about Gnome being there. I don't use Gnome but I know other people do. I did try it once tho. Just prefer KDE. Sorry. I won't complain about Gnome if you don't complain about KDE. lol Dale :-) :-)
