Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 12/04/2016 22:01, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:31:28 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> 
>>> I have ksnapshot in @world, so depclean didn't touch it.  It
>>> still works fine.  Spectacle and ksnapshot block each other, but if
>>> you unmerge spectacle you may be able to get a working ksnapshot
>>> back, at least for now.  
>>
>> I know, had to copy a meta-ebuild ( kdegraphics-meta ) into my local
>> overlay and modify it to pick ksnapshot though. As the later version
>> only allows Spectacle.
> 
> I don't use the meta packages, preferring to define my own set with the
> packages I want, so I wasn't aware of Spectacle. I've just tried it an is
> seems to do much the same as ksnapshot, just with a lot more white space
> in the UI - but WTF do they block one another, they're only screen shot
> programs?

There doesn't seem to be a good technical reason, maybe it's as simple
as the maintainer thought there shouldn't be two competing apps with the
same functionality?

I unblocked them here, and re-emerged both. Nothing extra was pulled in,
so there are no conflicting libs.

Unfortunately I can't attach a screenshot as proof - both remove their
own window to do the capture :-)


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Alan McKinnon
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