Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

[Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>]

Dale writes:

> Robin Atwood wrote:
> > I am sure I saw some posts here where people claimed to have
> > installed 4.5.0 from the overlay. Maybe they have some input?
> > Otherwise I will go with choice 2!

I am running 4.5.0 for a while now, and for me it is the best KDE4 ever. 
Which does not mean that all is perfect, but there are less bugs than with 
previous versions, and, so far, few new bugs. Most annoying for konqueror 
users is that when you open an URL from a link in kmail or kopete, it 
opens a local copy in /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER/krun/ [1], without CSS and 
with links not working. I got used to chromium as default browser so this 
is not a big issue for me. The kdepim suite was not ready yet, I don't use 
it anyway. Not sure if I should suggest using it - I also heard bad things 
about it, but personally I did not regret the update. I was disappojnted 
with KDE 4.4, so I dared to do this. If things are working for you, I'd 
suggest to wait a little longer.

> I mentioned in a thread somewhere that I tried installing KDE 4.5.0.
> Thing is, all I got was a lot of broken pieces and no GUI for several
> hours while I downgraded.

Always install some additional window managers for these cases :)  So at 
least you have a GUI and can do useful things with your machine while 
downgrading. FEATURES=usepkg is also useful and reduces build time. Or 
back up your whole system before, this is what I do. In an emergency, I 
can just go back in a short time.

> Me, I'm waiting until they get it in the tree unless some people post
> they can get it from a overlay and everything "just works".

KDE 4.5.1 just hit the kde overlay (including kdepimlibs-4.5.1, but other 
kdepim stuff still is at 4.4), I'm starting to build as soon as my backup 
has finished. I'll report my experiences when it's done. Could take a 
while.

No idea why I do not get the blockers the OP has.

	Wonko

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245525