From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FLsbT-0004Da-Uz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:57:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2M1tv0F017214; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:55:57 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2M1gSi7006410 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:42:28 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE76110C66 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:42:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32064-10-5 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:42:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip70-178-212-144.ks.ks.cox.net (ip70-178-212-144.ks.ks.cox.net [70.178.212.144]) (using SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 572B110C63 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:42:23 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE version Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:42:18 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200603212113.16353.contiemilio@virgilio.it> <200603212212.54913.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> <200603212340.56676.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <200603212340.56676.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603211942.18707.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net X-Archives-Salt: efd2468d-16ad-4d34-9317-4d703462d23e X-Archives-Hash: 1a0f94ff5c35d86985203443a347eb8a On Tuesday 21 March 2006 16:40, "Hemmann, Volker Armin" wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] KDE version': > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 22:12, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 21.13, contiemilio@virgilio.it wrote: > > > To-day I installed kdebase using "emerge kdebase". > > > But the installed version was 3.4.3. > > > Is it right? Did not KDE reach 3.5 version? > > > > I did not sync recently but (on my amd64 machine) emerge --pretend > > =kde-3.5.0 shows the package are still masked with keyword. > > which is quite sad - KDE 3.5.1 is out for ages! The KDE team is a bunch of weenies. :P Seriously, I think they hold package releases (even point releases) in package.mask and ~ARCH too long. HOWEVER, they are provide (IIRC) both split and monolithic ebuilds, which is quite a bit of work to get completely right. > But the times, that gentoo was pretty actual in the stable tree are > over. You do realize the above sentence makes no freakin' sense, right? > Is this so bad with gnome too? What's gnome? -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list