From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C20B59CA3 for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2016 12:24:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C985021C1CC for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2016 12:24:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BBF8CE07C7 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2016 23:37:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C202A3128A2 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2016 18:37:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tVIA3cVVTuUO for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2016 18:37:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from ca.inter.net (host-45-78-194-125.dyn.295.ca [45.78.194.125]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id DE9902EA849 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2016 18:37:38 -0500 (EST) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 05 Mar 2016 18:37:38 -0500 Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 18:37:38 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: Gentoo User Subject: [gentoo-user] KDE's confusing versions Message-ID: <20160305233738.GA1264@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: Gentoo User 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-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Archives-Salt: f26ce00e-17bc-46b3-9b7a-8be825a61c74 X-Archives-Hash: 22e25bbbb25db051e3c3028c7d44bc3e I don't use the KDE desktop & don't want it installed, but I do regularly use several KDE apps, eg Konsole, Gwenview, Okular. For a long time, there haven't been stable updates of these apps & I've continued to run the '4.14.x' versions, but today Okular 15.08.3-r1 appeared as stable when I did my weekly update via 'eix-sync'. I duly emerged it -- I never do 'emerge world' without '-p' -- & it seems to be working as before. Eix tells me : root:504 ~> eix konsole [U] kde-apps/konsole Available versions: (4) 4.14.3(4/4.14)^t 4.14.3-r2(4/4.14)^t (5) ~15.08.3-r1 {X aqua debug +handbook test} Installed versions: 4.14.3(4)^t([2015-10-07 13:08:42]) (handbook -aqua -debug -minimal -test) root:505 ~> eix okular [I] kde-apps/okular Available versions: (4) 4.14.3(4/4.14)^t 15.08.3-r1(4/15.08)^t ~15.12.1(4/15.12)^t {aqua chm crypt debug djvu dpi ebook +handbook +jpeg kde mobi +pdf +postscript +tiff} Installed versions: 15.08.3-r1(4)^t([2016-03-05 18:13:44]) (crypt handbook jpeg pdf tiff -aqua -chm -debug -djvu -dpi -ebook -kde -mobi -postscript) So Okular 15.08.3-r1 is part of version (4), but Konsole 15.08.3-r1 is part of version (5). Can anyone explain this anomaly & how KDE versions are evolving ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca