From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N5wZ2-0001Os-Uy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:15:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2301E0871; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:15:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailfilter67.ihug.co.nz (mailfilter67.ihug.co.nz [203.109.136.67]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E59E0871 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:15:22 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqAEALsK8krLZNp//2dsb2JhbACBTt0KhD0EgWY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,685,1249214400"; d="scan'208";a="217652973" Received: from 203-100-218-127.callplus.net.nz (HELO linux.localnet) ([203.100.218.127]) by smtp.mailfilter4.ihug.co.nz with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 05 Nov 2009 20:15:20 +1300 From: Alistair Bush Organization: Gentoo Linux 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, 5 Nov 2009 20:16:28 +1300 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <4AD8D301.7020903@gentoo.org> <1257344465.6779.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4AF18F73.9010604@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AF18F73.9010604@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200911052016.28422.ali_bush@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: ad9b3203-18be-471c-b1d7-6e5a0df39c19 X-Archives-Hash: c8bff40635ec02478ae3089532d00d2d > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > El mi=E9, 04-11-2009 a las 07:55 -0600, Dale escribi=F3: > >> I mention because I have already downloaded Mandriva and plan to insta= ll > >> it as a temporary fix if needed. I think I can suffer through Mandriva > >> for a couple months while this gets sorted out. I'm planning to insta= ll > >> the same for my brother. I would like to install Gentoo but he's not = as > >> geeky as me. > >> > >> < back to my hole again > > >> > >> Dale > >> > >> :-) :-) > > > > Mandriva already dropped KDE3 in 2010 and cooker and it's not being > > supported in older versions, since it's in contrib (for 2009.1) and > > 2009.0 (and previous) support ended for desktops. Then, it's "the same > > situation" (or even worse since, *if I don't misremember*, there is no > > external repository still providing kde3) > > > > Regards >=20 > I have the 2009 version which still has KDE 3.5 available. I think KDE > 4 is there to but I don't plan to install it anyway. >=20 > It may not be as secure but at least it still works. ;-) If you never sync'd you portage tree again then kde3.5 would continue to wo= rk=20 too.=20 >=20 > Dale >=20 > :-) :-) >=20