Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Sunday 14 Aug 2016 19:12:43 Robin Atwood wrote:
> On Sunday 14 August 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Well, either you can try it to see what happens, maybe putting it back
> > afterwards, or you can remove that line from the ebuild - again,
> > temporarily. Or try the kde-sunset overlay as Dan suggests.
> > 
> > It's becoming steadily harder to stick with KDE-4 in Gentoo. I gave up a
> > few weeks ago, once I'd found a desktop arrangement to suit me.
> 
> Using -wallpapers worked and I still have wallpapers.

USE=wallpapers is not the same thing as installing a wallpapers package. It 
looks in this case as though setting the flag will cause packages to be 
installed as part of *-meta, but I dare say it's just a convenience to save 
one operation.

> 'layman -L' finds no kde-sunset.

Google suggests it's in git nowadays.

> I suppose I will at some stage have to install KDE5 on a
> laptop; will KMail 4.4 still work?

It does here, though not on a laptop - well, as well as can be expected, 
that is.

-- 
Rgds
Peter