Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.

["Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>]

Beso wrote:
> 2008/5/29 Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>:
> 
>> On Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
>>
>>> Do I NEED kde-meta-4.0 installed?  The HOWTO says otherwise.  I'd prefer
>>> to have a chance to fall back on to 3.5.9 if I need to.
>> you can have kde-meta-4.0.4 and kde3.5.9 installed at the same time. I
>> do...
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>>
> you aren't forced to have it installed but since the deps aren't fully ok
> nowadays the kdebase-meta-4.0.4 is good to be installed. and since it's a
> slotted install (as almost all gentoo major bump versions or even minor in
> some cases as python, gcc, java, autotools and autoconf for example) they
> are likely to not interfere with each others. you'll just have to make a
> copy of your .kde folder. the first time you'll login the system will create
> a .kde3.5, a .kde4 and a .kde symlink in your home directory. the first is
> the config for the 3.5 enviroment, the second for the kde4 one and the
> symlink points to the last environment you've used and after login is
> pointing to the in use environment. if you haven't started yet kde4 and find
> a .kde4 folder in your home directory then move it elsewhere and retry a
> login after installing the kdebase-meta-4.0.4. this is the minimum required
> package along with kdebase-startkde-4.0.4 to be able to use kde4. if you
> don't like it then just remove the kde4 slot packages and you'll stay with
> kde3.5. just remember that a qt rebuild needs a kdelibs rebuild: the qt4
> needs  also the kdelibs-3.5.x rebuild to have the qt4 apps still working in
> the correct way (lastfm would display only broken stuff without kdelibs
> rebuild after a qt4 upgrade/rebuild), while the qt3 doesn't need a
> kdelibs-4.0.4 rebuild, but only a kdelibs-3.5.x one. i'd also advice you to
> leave the 4.0.4 branch and test the 4.1 beta one (seems to be better in
> terms of quality and usability than 4.0.4 one).
> 

Hey, I'll all for testing 4.1, but how do I get it?  I don't see it in 
portage?



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