From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LTNZY-0004aB-4u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:40:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06E78E0351; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:40:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C40E0351 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:40:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72688642A4 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:40:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.079 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.079 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.480, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NV-IwoIvQBsy for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:40:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50420643CE for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:40:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LTNZL-0000oz-5U for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:40:03 +0000 Received: from athedsl-414655.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.171.189]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:40:03 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-414655.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:40:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.2 and KDE-3.5 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:35:17 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <122318397.1415181233432347614.JavaMail.root@avocado.cs.athabascau.ca> <1172072913.1415221233432552207.JavaMail.root@avocado.cs.athabascau.ca> 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=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-414655.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090101) In-Reply-To: <1172072913.1415221233432552207.JavaMail.root@avocado.cs.athabascau.ca> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 16f62161-28f2-4d56-8471-981ce0c47399 X-Archives-Hash: bed5a6a8a8823763c0cf2bb52f489e6d Dmitry Makovey wrote: > Hi, > > I was tracking KDE-4.x for a while now while sticking to "stable" KDE-3.5, which in gentoo's case is 3.5.9. Trying to get KDE-4.2 installed spits out a blocker: > > [blocks B ] <=kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10 ("<=kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10" is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.0) > > which for me means switching to *2* testing platforms (3.5.10 and 4.2) when I want to test only 1 (4.2). > > Now my question is: how safe is it to do a workaround, and create local version of kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.0-r1 ebuild (say, -r2) which removes the block and just stick with 3.5.9 on 3.5 side ? I really don't feel like unmasking 3.5.10 builds and building them too. > > another confusing thing is: > !<=kde-base/kdebase-3.5.9-r4 > !<=kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10 > which I read as "you're fine using kde-3.5.9 as long as you don't use startkde". kind of weird. I know you didn't ask for this answer, but KDE 3.5.10 is *not* masked. It's in ~arch. It should be a safe/stable update since it's a bug-fix release (and I assume it's the last release of the KDE3 series.)