From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [RFC] portage-2.1.6 release plans
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 09:32:28 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2008.11.08.09.32.27@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4914E580.5010502@gentoo.org
Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> posted 4914E580.5010502@gentoo.org,
excerpted below, on Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:04:00 -0800:
> I haven't talked to [the kde project] about [hard-masking all portage
versions with set support] but AFAIK it entirely possible to use
> kde4 without package sets since the meta-ebuilds are available.
Hmm... I followed the kde4 guide, which talks about sets, and was under
the impression they either weren't even doing the metapackages, with sets
supplanting them, of if they were, they were using set dependencies, thus
required sets.
A quick look demonstrates that impression was wrong, however. I'd never
even checked to see if the meta-ebuilds were actually there!
So... it seems the ebuilds are there. Never-the-less, for folks who have
followed the kde4 guide, sets will be (almost) a must, since that's what
it talks about using, so that's probably what folks who read the guide
/did/ use. I know it's what I used.[1]
Regardless, I'd definitely touch base with them on it. At minimum, the
upgrade guide will need either changed or taken down, if set support goes
back hard-masked. I doubt they'll be very happy about it, but if it
needs to happen, well...
[1] FWIW, I have kde-4.1.2 merged, but consider it still broken and well
short of what I'd find actually workable for daily use. There's just too
many bits and pieces that don't work, and won't work until at least
4.2.0, possibly 4.3.0 the way things are going.
--
Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-07 23:38 [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] portage-2.1.6 release plans Zac Medico
2008-11-08 0:45 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] " Duncan
2008-11-08 1:04 ` Zac Medico
2008-11-08 9:32 ` Duncan [this message]
2008-11-08 17:33 ` Zac Medico
2008-11-08 5:28 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] " Marius Mauch
2008-11-08 5:46 ` Zac Medico
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