Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

Am 09.10.2014 um 09:56 schrieb Michael Palimaka:
> On 10/09/2014 04:38 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> Am 08.10.2014 um 11:56 schrieb Michael Palimaka:
>>> On 10/08/2014 07:31 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>>> so after spending hours fighting to upgrade boost, I finally got to the
>>>> point were portage let me emerge kde-framework.
>>>>
>>>> I went to bed.
>>>>
>>>> I woke up 2h later... only 9 packages were installed, the rest skipped
>>>> because of wrong gcc.
>>>>
>>>> Crap like that should be told right at the start.
>>> This is carryover from KDE 4. In all packages except kdelibs, the GCC
>>> check was in pkg_setup instead of pkg_pretend to save time during
>>> dependency resolution (think emerging 300 KDE packages at once).
>>>
>>> I did some quick tests and I'm not convinced that the small time saving
>>> justifies bending the rules and causing the sort of issue you ran into.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> luckily, I did have gcc 4.8 installed, until now I just did not have a
>> reason to switch. Afterwards emerging the rest was a non-issue. emerge
>> @preserved-rebuild is not happy, of course because of kactivities-4 and
>> -5 not liking each other.. let them be unhappy...
>>
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> You can have both at the same time by merging kactivities:4 with minimal
> USE flag. That will be handled automatically by a new profile in due course.
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>

ah, thanks!