Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: - Original Message From: Dale To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:12:18 -0600, Dale wrote: Did you mean to say that you CAN'T break a system be editing world because the critical

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Dale > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:12:18 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> Did you mean to say that you CAN'T break a system be editing world > >> because the critical packages aren't in there? > > indeed I did. > >> At least I am not the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:12:18 -0600, Dale wrote: Did you mean to say that you CAN'T break a system be editing world because the critical packages aren't in there? indeed I did. At least I am not the only one that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:12:18 -0600, Dale wrote: > Did you mean to say that you CAN'T break a system be editing world > because the critical packages aren't in there? indeed I did. > At least I am not the only one that leaves out the NOT sometimes. The difference is, I don't blame it on hal :P

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:21:00 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: From what I've read in the past, modifying 'world' would be a big no-no, and very risky - so I never touched it - also why I never really ran 'emerge --depclean', which i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:45:03 -0600, Dale wrote: > If it starts to > remove something that you know you want to keep, then you need to > figure out why that entry was there and what can be put in the world > file to keep the things you do want. And while you can edit world by hand to remove stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:21:00 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: > From what I've read in the past, modifying 'world' would be a big > no-no, and very risky - so I never touched it - also why I never really > ran 'emerge --depclean', which is reporting some 400 packages to remove > now that I've got that clea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:53:31 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > emerge -C does the same. It's just that I find it easier to edit the > world file directly (it's just a text file, after all, no magic in > there) if I want to clean up stuff. If you don't want to delete > something from world by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:11:11 -0600, Dale wrote: > I ran into this a long time ago and I added this to my make.conf so > that I don't forget. Try running this: > > emerge -uvDNa --with-bdeps y world > > Then see what that does. That added bit makes it look deeper into > dependencies. Like you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 27 February 2010 06:53:31 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/27/2010 07:21 AM, BRM wrote: > > - Original Message > > > >> From: Dale > >> > >>> On 02/27/2010 04:15 AM, BRM wrote: > > From: Neil BothwickTo: > > > > (PST), BRM wrote: > >> Aside from that, I'm not su

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/27/2010 07:21 AM, BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Dale On 02/27/2010 04:15 AM, BRM wrote: From: Neil BothwickTo: (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge --depclean", but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't install things left

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Dale > > On 02/27/2010 04:15 AM, BRM wrote: > >>> From: Neil BothwickTo: > >>> (PST), BRM wrote: > Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge > --depclean", but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't > install things left o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: - Original Message From: Dale - Original Message From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Dale > > - Original Message > >> From: Neil Bothwick > >> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > >> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: > >>> Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge > >>> --depclean", but I also rarely

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/27/2010 04:15 AM, BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge --depclean", but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't ins

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 02/27/2010 04:15 AM, BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "eme

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: - Original Message From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge --depclean", but I als

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Neil Bothwick > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: > > Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge > > --depclean", but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't install > > things left or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge --depclean", but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't install things left or right to try out either, s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: > Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge > --depclean", but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't install > things left or right to try out either, so typically upgrades are all I > need to do. You should still run -

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/26/2010 06:10 PM, BRM wrote: [...] From: Alex Schuster That's the only issue. My only concern is software (e.g. KDevelop) that may not have been updated to KDE4 yet. (Not a fan of KDevelop3; waiting to see how KDevelop4 is going to shape up.) The KDE4 version is in the kde overlay, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: - Original Message From: Dale To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 02/26/2010 06:06 AM, BRM wrote: I am quite happy with KDE4 - prese

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Alex Schuster > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > BRM writes: > > > > If you keep your world file (/var/lib/portage/world) tidy, simply > > > > deleting all lines with KDE3 packages and running emerge -a -- > > > > depclean will take care of it. > > > > You *d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
BRM writes: > > > If you keep your world file (/var/lib/portage/world) tidy, simply > > > deleting all lines with KDE3 packages and running emerge -a -- > > > depclean will take care of it. > > > > > You *do* keep your world file tidy, don't you? :P > > > > That would be the easiest method. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Dale > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > > On 02/26/2010 06:06 AM, BRM wrote: > >> I am quite happy with KDE4 - presently using KDE 4.3.5. I still have KDE > 3.5.10 installed, and am wonderi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-25 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 02/26/2010 06:06 AM, BRM wrote: I am quite happy with KDE4 - presently using KDE 4.3.5. I still have KDE 3.5.10 installed, and am wondering how much longer I need to keep it around...I probably use all KDE4 apps, though there

[gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/26/2010 06:06 AM, BRM wrote: I am quite happy with KDE4 - presently using KDE 4.3.5. I still have KDE 3.5.10 installed, and am wondering how much longer I need to keep it around...I probably use all KDE4 apps, though there might be a few here or there that I use on a rare occasion that a