[gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

Arttu V. wrote:
> On 11/25/08, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
>> Zsitvai János wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>> So you're saying I must spend 1 hour to mask all the stuff?  (Not joking,
>>>> the list is big, I have to do "emerge -av world" each time and see the
>>>> package, mask it, emerge again, mask it, emerge again, mask it, ad
>>>> infinitum.  This is not funny :P)
>>> eix -C kde-|grep "\[[IU]\]"|awk -F" " '{print $2 ":4.1"}' >
>>> /etc/portage/package.mask/kde4
>> package.mask is a file here, not a directory.
> 
> Maybe you should use existing, old portage features: slots.
> 
> Add ":3.5" to the end of all those "kde-base/"-starting lines in
> package.keywords, and you'll accept unstable from slot 3.5 but not
> from 4.1 (current kde4 slot).

Thank you.  It's funny though that portage-2.1.4.5 somehow kept the 4.1 
slot out of the way even though I didn't specify a slot in 
package.keywords.  That's why I assumed there's some bug here.