Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 05:49:23 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Holly is American... so it's even more surprising GDR wow she hasn't bitten either of us LOL. I'm trying to let the thread *die*, gentlemen.! Such willpower! All in vain though :) Cheese and crackers! Pass the port! -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:29:05 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: The lady has a way with words! particularly for someone from the .nl domain :-/ Holly is American... so it's even more surprising GDR -- Neil Bothwick You have a tendency to feel you are superior to most computers. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:24:43 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: No wonder you find world unsatisfactory unless you use --oneshot every time Of course I do, when the package is not already in world or system: there's now an easy abbreviation '-1'. I know about, and use, -1, but the full name makes

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-19 Thread Eddie Mihalow Jr
Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:46:27 -0500 Ernie Schroder wrote: But as you say, enough. Holly The lady has a way with words! -- Regards, Ernie particularly for someone from the .nl domain :-/ Your asking for it now, Nick heheh -- Edward A Mihalow Jr Gentoo! Linux Registered

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:08:33 + Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:29:05 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: The lady has a way with words! particularly for someone from the .nl domain :-/ Holly is American... so it's even more surprising GDR wow she hasn't bitten either of us LOL.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Nick Rout schreef: On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:08:33 + Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:29:05 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: The lady has a way with words! particularly for someone from the .nl domain :-/ Holly is American... so it's even more surprising GDR wow she hasn't bitten

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
051218 Holly Bostick wrote: Do *not* use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line except for an explicit 'testing' situation. Either with --pretend, to see what packages are involved, or for a single/simple unstable package you are not sure you want to keep, for which Portage's automatic downgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread LostSon
Wait til Holly sees this grin No, no, Ernie, you've covered the meat of any warning I would give with relation to LostSon's suggestion, but I'll say it again: Thank you all for blasting me about how i do things. Im sorry I dont do things the perfect gentoo way you think they should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:27:50 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I consider 'world' an unsatisfactory feature of Gentoo never use it except for 'emerge -Dup world' to get an ordering for updates before emerging some of them individually in a weekly session. No wonder you find world unsatisfactory.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/18/05, LostSon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all for blasting me about how i do things. It wasn't my intention to blast you, and I'm sorry if you took it that way. There is nothing wrong with the way you are doing things, but I doubt that most users here are so controlling about

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:13:54 -0600 LostSon wrote: Wait til Holly sees this grin No, no, Ernie, you've covered the meat of any warning I would give with relation to LostSon's suggestion, but I'll say it again: Thank you all for blasting me about how i do things. Im sorry I dont do

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 12:13, a tiny voice compelled LostSon to write: Wait til Holly sees this grin I made that comment because I had used ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line as you did and I got the same stern lecture that I expected Holly would give you. I went on to say that unless

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Petteri Räty
Holly Bostick wrote: It's not like the world is going to end if you don't have KDE 3.5 /today/ as opposed to two weeks from today (probably sooner, since KDE is a high-demand package, and people will start to b**ch if it's not stable some specified time after the well-known upstream release

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Dale
Ernie Schroder wrote: Thank you all for blasting me about how i do things. Im sorry I dont do things the perfect gentoo way you think they should be done. however I feel when KDE releases a new version to the mirrors it is time to install it. I have had discussions about the whole Deep world

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
051218 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:27:50 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: I consider 'world' an unsatisfactory feature of Gentoo never use it except for 'emerge -Dup world' to get an ordering for updates before emerging some of them individually in a weekly session. No wonder you

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Philip Webb schreef: 051218 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:27:50 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: Otherwise, I keep a list of all the packages I have installed -- something Gentoo should provide automatically, but 'world' doesn't, Yes it does. world provides a list of all

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 18 December 2005 21:20, a tiny voice compelled Holly Bostick to write: That's how Portage works. Sorry you don't like it, but claiming that correct instructions on the working of the distribution's tools is just our blinkered opinion about how one is supposed to do it everyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:46:27 -0500 Ernie Schroder wrote: But as you say, enough. Holly The lady has a way with words! -- Regards, Ernie particularly for someone from the .nl domain :-/ -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-17 Thread Nick Rout
I see a lot of people seem to have upgraded to kde 3.5. I am currently running kde 3.4.1 (installed via kde-meta) and stable is 3.4.3. However reports seem to be that 3.5.0 seems good enuf to work with and I can't be bothered compiling 3.4.3 and then 3.5 later. S, is there an easy way

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-17 Thread LostSon
On Saturday 17 December 2005 21:17, Nick Rout wrote: I see a lot of people seem to have upgraded to kde 3.5. I am currently running kde 3.4.1 (installed via kde-meta) and stable is 3.4.3. However reports seem to be that 3.5.0 seems good enuf to work with and I can't be bothered compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:33:33 -0600 LostSon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 17 December 2005 21:17, Nick Rout wrote: I see a lot of people seem to have upgraded to kde 3.5. I am currently running kde 3.4.1 (installed via kde-meta) and stable is 3.4.3. However reports seem to be that

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-17 Thread Samir Faci
Nick Rout wrote: I see a lot of people seem to have upgraded to kde 3.5. I am currently running kde 3.4.1 (installed via kde-meta) and stable is 3.4.3. However reports seem to be that 3.5.0 seems good enuf to work with and I can't be bothered compiling 3.4.3 and then 3.5 later. S, is

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/17/05, Samir Faci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: assuming you've done an emerge --sync with the past.. (what is month or so since kde 3.5 was unmasked? ) just run emerge -u kde (u for upgrade or heck even committing the -u, it still should work fine.) You have confused keyword masked with

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:41:26 -0600 Samir Faci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Rout wrote: I see a lot of people seem to have upgraded to kde 3.5. I am currently running kde 3.4.1 (installed via kde-meta) and stable is 3.4.3. However reports seem to be that 3.5.0 seems good enuf to work

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting to kde 3.5

2005-12-17 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 17 December 2005 22:57, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: On 12/17/05, LostSon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 17 December 2005 21:17, Nick Rout wrote: I see a lot of people seem to have upgraded to kde 3.5. I am currently running kde 3.4.1 (installed via