Re: [gentoo-user] kdemultimedia-arts-3.5.10 and the arts flag

2009-11-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 14 November 2009 01:17:13 Dale wrote: Just picking on this one since it is newer. ;-) I finally got through the other stuff, with arts enabled since it griped about the change before, and I am now disabling arts. I think it wanted it so badly because I was doing a

Re: [gentoo-user] kdemultimedia-arts-3.5.10 and the arts flag

2009-11-14 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 14 November 2009 01:17:13 Dale wrote: Just picking on this one since it is newer. ;-) I finally got through the other stuff, with arts enabled since it griped about the change before, and I am now disabling arts. I think it wanted it so badly because I

Re: [gentoo-user] kdemultimedia-arts-3.5.10 and the arts flag

2009-11-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 15 November 2009 00:40:48 Dale wrote: The only reason arts ever existed at all was to do sound mixing in software in the days when hardware generally did not do that. These days alsa takes care of all of that. OSS-4 does a better job I hear, but in any case you do not need

Re: [gentoo-user] kdemultimedia-arts-3.5.10 and the arts flag

2009-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:37:28 -0600, Dale wrote: Well, if it would let me ditch it, I would ditch it. I guess it is KDE that wants this thing so badly. I dunno. Nope, otherwise it wouldn't have a USE flag to make it optional. I ran KDE£ with -arts for years. -- Neil Bothwick Those who

Re: [gentoo-user] kdemultimedia-arts-3.5.10 and the arts flag

2009-11-13 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:37:28 -0600, Dale wrote: Well, if it would let me ditch it, I would ditch it. I guess it is KDE that wants this thing so badly. I dunno. Nope, otherwise it wouldn't have a USE flag to make it optional. I ran KDE£ with -arts for years.

[gentoo-user] kdemultimedia-arts-3.5.10 and the arts flag

2009-11-12 Thread Dale
Hi, I'm getting KDE 3.5 from this layman thing so I am lost. I did a update and was told to run emerge @preserved-rebuild, so I did. Then I get this: Emerging (1 of 7) kde-base/kdemultimedia-arts-3.5.10 from kde-sunset * kdemultimedia-3.5.10.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...

Re: [gentoo-user] kdemultimedia-arts-3.5.10 and the arts flag

2009-11-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:09:13 -0600, Dale wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6 USE=acl alsa cups fam jpeg2k spell tiff (-arts) -avahi -bindist -branding -debug -doc -kdehiddenvisibility -kerberos -legacyssl -lua -openexr -utempter 0 kB [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] kdemultimedia-arts-3.5.10 and the arts flag

2009-11-12 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:09:13 -0600, Dale wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6 USE=acl alsa cups fam jpeg2k spell tiff (-arts) -avahi -bindist -branding -debug -doc -kdehiddenvisibility -kerberos -legacyssl -lua -openexr

Re: [gentoo-user] kdemultimedia-arts-3.5.10 and the arts flag

2009-11-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 November 2009 16:13:46 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:09:13 -0600, Dale wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6 USE=acl alsa cups fam jpeg2k spell tiff (-arts) -avahi -bindist -branding -debug -doc

Re: [gentoo-user] kdemultimedia-arts-3.5.10 and the arts flag

2009-11-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 16:13:46 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:09:13 -0600, Dale wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6 USE=acl alsa cups fam jpeg2k spell tiff (-arts) -avahi

Re: [gentoo-user] kdemultimedia-arts-3.5.10 and the arts flag

2009-11-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 12 November 2009 19:37:28 Dale wrote: arts was a disgusting piece of crap that never should have been suffered to live. You never needed it then and you certainly don't need it now. It's been abandoned for many years now (at least 4?) Well, if it would let me ditch it, I