2008/5/30 Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com>:

> 2008/5/30 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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>>>> gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  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?
>>
>
> there's a thread on the forum about installing the 4.1 beta 1 on gentoo. i
> think that in the next weeks the rc might hit portage in the second half of
> june.
>
>
forgotten the thread link:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5106540.html#5106540




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