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 1N5wlp-0002gv-Oj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:28:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C32EE08A5; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:28:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f191.google.com (mail-yw0-f191.google.com [209.85.211.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE38AE08A5 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:28:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh29 with SMTP id 29so7017286ywh.32 for ; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:28:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jMIRMfh3Yff/FJ8qW/s4IgcMmmlVmxTieiV+gIVSfVk=; b=SNn0n7hk0d18yvaAFOU7du22v9a6io9S2Yr9OolangHk7m3aWceoauJvK+Ol/6vNhW 2FtYmJZ6KA8WCc93wfxvPMDUKxkoJS95Xx7WKIu0RsDujgAusoaUjdOkwJ9NWrC8APje t+iPN0ikizrOlGIk/x4ElkghpyBK9moogxLUg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Y6QhgNR/khqk1CU36I7TMVcqT28Lv1aa8zk4UIf2uxZ0nZMoKEoLM1L19XhuTbc3nL GiHUrppajld0P4YmlWnYTWKsbS51NK+iqDRd5olCa0REkJMjAKpUa++/lvKFIZtO6a8I r01e6ktljJen4YStLiOH21Cbtk3FRDH107cpw= Received: by 10.91.171.4 with SMTP id y4mr5131298ago.116.1257406114380; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:28:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-115-242.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.115.242]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm855849yxd.16.2009.11.04.23.28.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:28:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4AF27E9F.4070007@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:28:31 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091007 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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 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 References: <4AD8D301.7020903@gentoo.org> <1257344465.6779.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4AF18F73.9010604@gmail.com> <200911052016.28422.ali_bush@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200911052016.28422.ali_bush@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 189e6e84-602d-491b-b7b0-576e3b31fc41 X-Archives-Hash: 7c76234d1be06d583706ff4100adda67 Alistair Bush wrote: >> Pacho Ramos wrote: >> =20 >>> El mi=E9, 04-11-2009 a las 07:55 -0600, Dale escribi=F3: >>> =20 >>>> I mention because I have already downloaded Mandriva and plan to ins= tall >>>> it as a temporary fix if needed. I think I can suffer through Mandr= iva >>>> for a couple months while this gets sorted out. I'm planning to ins= tall >>>> the same for my brother. I would like to install Gentoo but he's no= t as >>>> geeky as me. >>>> >>>> < back to my hole again > >>>> >>>> Dale >>>> >>>> :-) :-) >>>> =20 >>> 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 sam= e >>> situation" (or even worse since, *if I don't misremember*, there is n= o >>> external repository still providing kde3) >>> >>> Regards >>> =20 >> I have the 2009 version which still has KDE 3.5 available. I think KD= E >> 4 is there to but I don't plan to install it anyway. >> >> It may not be as secure but at least it still works. ;-) >> =20 > > If you never sync'd you portage tree again then kde3.5 would continue t= o work=20 > too.=20 > =20 >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> >> =20 I thought about that too. Everything works right now so I could go a little while without a update. However, we all know what happens if you go to long without updating Gentoo. A couple things pop up that bite you hard. With my luck, there would be a dozen or so. One that comes to mind is expat. It's not often but it can be fun when you have several at a time. Dale :-) :-)=20