From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 77DF81382FE for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:22:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8504621C12C; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:22:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03c.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03c.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67E1A21C102 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:22:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) by smarthost03c.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1bMCoj-0003e6-Bt for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:22:33 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4 Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:22:32 +0100 Message-ID: <1603989.ayNOSh4UCQ@peak> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.6.3-gentoo; KDE/4.14.21; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <5781B6AF.9080702@gmail.com> References: <201607092052.46760.robin@binro.org> <1729511.aGqk2Y6HsY@peak> <5781B6AF.9080702@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost03c-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 2fecdd97-0118-493a-aab9-6c0599a25652 X-Archives-Hash: 0a31907c4db352d876fc02fd317ecfb2 On Saturday 09 Jul 2016 19:45:03 Daniel Frey wrote: > Right now my machine is nice and stable. What I don't understand is that > plasma clearly isn't ready for primetime yet (IMHO) yet it seems KDE4 is > not installable on Gentoo anymore. The KDE project are notorious for that, or at least in my book they are. I told them last year that if I'd allowed an embryonic KDE-4 out the door the way they did I'd have been out of a job quicker than you could say "quality control." Made no difference of course. > I did try many things trying to get plasma working but everything I > tried had no results. Plasma would crash even if you didn't do anything > (no keyboard or mouse input.) I've had no trouble with stability, only with ugliness. Thanks again for trying to help, Dan. -- Rgds Peter