Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:04:00 -0800:
> I haven't talked to [the kde project] about [hard-masking all portage versions with set support] but AFAIK it entirely possible to use > kde4 without package sets since the meta-ebuilds are available. Hmm... I followed the kde4 guide, which talks about sets, and was under the impression they either weren't even doing the metapackages, with sets supplanting them, of if they were, they were using set dependencies, thus required sets. A quick look demonstrates that impression was wrong, however. I'd never even checked to see if the meta-ebuilds were actually there! So... it seems the ebuilds are there. Never-the-less, for folks who have followed the kde4 guide, sets will be (almost) a must, since that's what it talks about using, so that's probably what folks who read the guide /did/ use. I know it's what I used.[1] Regardless, I'd definitely touch base with them on it. At minimum, the upgrade guide will need either changed or taken down, if set support goes back hard-masked. I doubt they'll be very happy about it, but if it needs to happen, well... [1] FWIW, I have kde-4.1.2 merged, but consider it still broken and well short of what I'd find actually workable for daily use. There's just too many bits and pieces that don't work, and won't work until at least 4.2.0, possibly 4.3.0 the way things are going. -- 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
