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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@condmat1.ciencias.uniovi.es>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite (part 1): KDE3-only applications that won't build when KDE4 is installed
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:10:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1257419428.7800.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AF2055F.7090509@gmail.com>

El mié, 04-11-2009 a las 16:51 -0600, Dale escribió:
> Because I am not familiar with overlays.  I have never used one and hope
> to keep it that way.  If it was hardmasked, just run autounmask
> kde-meta:3.5 or something similar and carry on. 

I simply run:
# emerge layman
# layman -a "desired overlay"
# emerge "desired kde3 package"

in summary, please take a look on layman ;-)

> As for the tree, until recently I was on a very slow dial-up and just
> syncing the tree took about 45 minutes on average.  I never complained
> about Gnome being there.  I don't use Gnome but I know other people do. 
> I did try it once tho.  Just prefer KDE.  Sorry.  I won't complain about
> Gnome if you don't complain about KDE.  lol

That rationale is not ok since gnome is properly alive and maintained,
while kde3 is unsupported by upstream :-)

> 
> Dale

Best regards




      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-05 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-16 20:09 [gentoo-dev] Lastrite (part 1): KDE3-only applications that won't build when KDE4 is installed Samuli Suominen
2009-10-17 10:26 ` Peter Volkov
2009-10-17 10:35   ` Samuli Suominen
2009-11-03 22:30     ` [gentoo-dev] " Jörg Schaible
2009-11-04 12:29       ` Ben de Groot
2009-11-04 12:29         ` Ben de Groot
2009-11-04 12:46         ` Dale
2009-11-04 13:15           ` Ben de Groot
2009-11-04 13:55             ` Dale
2009-11-04 14:21               ` Pacho Ramos
2009-11-04 14:28                 ` Dale
2009-11-05  7:16                   ` Alistair Bush
2009-11-05  7:28                     ` Dale
2009-11-04 22:56                 ` [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: gnome-extra/hardware-monitor Romain Perier
2009-11-04 14:29               ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite (part 1): KDE3-only applications that won't build when KDE4 is installed AllenJB
2009-11-04 14:45               ` Ben de Groot
2009-11-04 21:48                 ` Dale
2009-11-04 21:57                   ` Pacho Ramos
2009-11-04 22:51                     ` Dale
2009-11-05  2:11                       ` Paul Arthur
2009-11-05  4:38                         ` Dale
2009-11-05 11:10                       ` Pacho Ramos [this message]

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