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

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

Beso wrote:
> 2008/6/2 Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>:
> 
>> ionut cucu wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 20:59:02 +0200
>>>
>> Man, I've opened up a HUGE can o'worms here.  I didn't mean to.  But back
>> to the reason for the post, I cannot find the correct KDE4.1 overlay.  I
>> read that it was kdesvn-portage, but it's not that I can tell.  So, if it's
>> not there, where is it.  I'm all for testing the crap out of it and
>> reporting bugs at this point.
>>
> 
> the 4.1 beta should be at least 4.0.80 version. that overlay should be the
> one of the 4.1 support thread and should have the old ebuild system. 4.1
> shouldn't hit portage until official release (about 1 or 2 week after
> release). the last i've checked that overlay had the old 4.1 alpha 1,
> already surpassed in quality and stability by the paludis-kde4 scm overlay.
> you'll just still have to check how does that overlay (the one mentioned in
> the 4.1 support thread) evolve and hope it works. i haven't tried it myself,
> but i know 2 things:
> 1. kde 4.1 should be much more stable than kde 4.0.x or kde4-scm versions
> available in portage and kde4-experimental overlay
> 2. i've tried it on a livecd and works fine for me, so if it doesn't really
> work well then maybe it's due to the overlay mantainers not doing a good
> work.
> 
> 

Beso, I tried to get the kde4-live overlay and layman sys it doesn't 
exist.  Even when I pulled in the xml file via the URL it didn't come 
up.  Ah well, maybe I'll just wait for 4.1 to be released.


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