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

[Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>]

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...
> 
> 
> 
> 

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.