On Sunday 10 July 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 09 Jul 2016 23:22:49 I wrote: > > On Sunday 10 Jul 2016 04:08:36 Michael Palimaka wrote: > --->8 > > > > This change is correct - we're in the process of cleaning up some old > > > ebuilds at the moment. > > > > > > In this case kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta:5 doesn't imply anything > > > KF5-based - it has just been ported to use a newer eclass. It still > > > just pulls in the old KDE4-based kde-runtime packages. > > I don't think that's entirely true; see below. > > > That's good news. Now, how does one allow that package to be installed > > while keeping the rest of KF5 masked? > > > > # cat /etc/portage/package.mask > > kde-plasma/* > > kde-frameworks/*:5 > > kde-apps/*:5 > > kde-misc/*:5 > > > > >=kde-apps/kde4-l10n-16.04.1 > > > > We seem to need an analogue of CONFIG_PROTECT and CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, in > > which we could mask all kde-apps/*:5 while allowing > > kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta:5 to be installed. Can that be done? I hope > > there's an easier way than masking all 122 apps separately. > > In fact I tried the separate masking. It led on to having to treat > kde-plasma and kde-frameworks similarly, and before I knew it I was > unmasking a load of packages that don't belong in a KDE-4 system. > > What to try next?
Indeed. The situation seems to be that Gentoo is not upgradable unless KDE5 is installed. :( Robin -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.