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Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Updates other than the masked one
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
>
> Cool! =3D:^)
>
> You didn't mention whether you read the bug I linked or not, but it gives
> the reason behind the addition. =A0Upstream kde is considering it "core"
> now, and packages may begin to use any of the included runtime
> functionality without warning. =A0There's already (Gentoo-specific) bugs
> appearing that they're having to deal with, because Gentoo wasn't
> requiring it and thus certain assumed present functionality was missing.
>
> As usual, individual Gentoo users can use package.provided to avoid
> having to install some of the new packages if they only use individual
> kde apps, but they do so in the knowledge that they are short-circuiting
> a dependency mechanism and may be causing breakage to their own setup.
> (One such example is amarok, which now requires certain kdebase-runtime
> functionality for its lastfm support. =A0Apparently, that functionality w=
as
> broken for some users that used it, who filed bugs, with this being the
> resolution.)
Hi Duncan,
actually, I had already read it before I wrote the original posting. I
just didn't realise that I could 'safely' unmask the package (because
I already had chosen to run the unstable KDE4.3 release).
I like the concept of Gentoo, the power it gives to me, the safe
bleeding-edge apps and the ease in which I can run my own custom build
kernel. But on the other hand: I just need a working desktop and in
98% of the cases I don't want to dive into all the details to get
things working. This seems to be a contradiction, I should have been
an Ubuntu user, but that's not true :-D Now and then I apply some
custom USE-flags, but I stick to the default install as much as I can
so I'm not the one to discover bugs.
Regards,
Martin