On Thursday 01 March 2007 22:54:43 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Your problem is that you are trying to mix them. That is difficult or > impossible and is AFAIK not supported. Either remove all your monolithic > packages and install the split equivalents (the -meta packages help here) > or remove all your split packages and install all the monolithic packages > you need.
Quoting [1]: "Split and monolithic ebuilds can be mixed freely. The only restriction is that a monolithic ebuild can't be installed at the same time as a split ebuild deriving from it. There are blocking dependencies in the ebuilds that enforce this, so you can do anything emerge allows you to do." So emerging say kdebase (monolithic) and kpdf (split but not from kdebase) at the same time is quite supported. It just prevents you from emerging either of kde-meta or kde since they are all split or all monolithic respectively. I'm in favour of removing the monolithic ebuilds too though. They seem to cause more confusion than they are worth. :) [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml -- Bo Andresen
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