[gentoo-dev] Re: KDE3 deprecation news item. [ the GLEP 42 based variant ]

2009-10-30 Thread Duncan
Tomáš Chvátal posted on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:10:17 +0100 as excerpted: > The KDE3 support is being dropped with immediate effect. This means that > ebuilds are dropping KDE3 support where they were broken, or clashing > with KDE4. I'm still not quite happy with that, but I'm not quite sure what to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: KDE3 deprecation news item. [ the GLEP 42 based variant ]

2009-10-30 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Duncan wrote: ... lots of the text trimmed ... > Title: KDE3 will be masked and removed from portage > > [other headers unchanged, omit the radio on line] > > After multiple setbacks we have finally managed to stabilise KDE4 on > both major desktop architectures (amd64 and x86), with other teams

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE3 deprecation news item. [ the GLEP 42 based variant ]

2009-10-30 Thread Philip Webb
091030 Tomáš Chvátal wrote re: > Title: KDE3 will be masked and removed from portage Can someone explain -- or point to the relevant docs which explain -- how to use the KDE 3 overlay ? Perhaps this sb in the news announcement. I've successfully installed most of KDE 4.3.1 , but without the desk

[gentoo-dev] Re: KDE3 deprecation news item. [ the GLEP 42 based variant ]

2009-10-30 Thread Duncan
Tomáš Chvátal posted on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:13:49 +0100 as excerpted: > Thanks for help :] It sounds a bit too chatty/informal for a news item to me. Also, a few phrases look unusual to my native English eye. Suggestions included, YMMV as they say. > Title: KDE3 will be masked and removed fr

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE3 deprecation news item. [ the GLEP 42 based variant ]

2009-10-30 Thread Petteri Räty
Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > Please turn your KDE radio on, and make sure to turn the volume to its maximum > level for this important message. When I am reading the news item I have already actively done it with eselect news so I think it should be better to just start with the actual content. Regard

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE3 deprecation news item. [ the GLEP 42 based variant ]

2009-10-30 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > > > > Title: KDE3 will be masked and removed from portage > > Author: Samuli Suominen > > Maybe add your self as author? Multiple "Author" fields are allowed. > (And yes, UTF-8 in header fields is allowed, too. ;-) > Multi

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Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE3 deprecation news item. [ the GLEP 42 based variant ]

2009-10-30 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > Title: KDE3 will be masked and removed from portage > Author: Samuli Suominen Maybe add your self as author? Multiple "Author" fields are allowed. (And yes, UTF-8 in header fields is allowed, too. ;-) > Content-Type: text/plain > Posted: 2009-10

[gentoo-dev] KDE3 deprecation news item. [ the GLEP 42 based variant ]

2009-10-30 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Hi, since we are kinda deprecating kde3 and removing support where it clashes with newly stabled kde4 it deserves massive anouncements to users. For first we have prepared the front-page thingie (as we already discussed over mails internaly) and for second we should have GLEP 42 news item ready