-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew D Kirch wrote: > Torsten Veller wrote: >> * Andrew D Kirch <trel...@trelane.net>: >> >>> This should really be a non-issue. I just spent 2 days dealing with >>> being 3.5 weeks out of date. >>> >> To help us improve the user experience, what were the problems that >> cost you two days? >> >> > > > The major problem was getting caught up in the 'kdeprefix' use flag. > The time loss can basically be explained as: > 1. compile kde 4.3 which eventually fails 12+ hours > 2. eradicate kde 4.2 and 4.3, 4 or so hours > 3. clean up the resulting mess in @world, 8 hours > 4. compile kde 4.3 again 12+hours > > This on a dual p4 3ghz takes a bit of time sadly. I also ran into bug > 280443 with XOrg (and have commented appropriately). It appears dbus > specific files aren't going where they should, and HAL is kicking > unhelpful errors. > > Andrew D Kirch > Funtoo.org
As the KDE team Lead and to explain the above, this was an unfortunate requirement for the KDE team to get KDE-4 in the road to be marked stable. We should have probably announced it better and warned users about it sooner. This only affected users running the testing tree or users that had already switched to KDE-4 and was required as KDE upstream doesn't support multiple installs in the same prefix and we had a few nasty issues with python bindings (not being able to slot them as they install files into site-dir) and there's a bug in the qt plugin loader that would make it load plugins from the wrong prefix[1]. [1] - http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-708282.html - FAQ section - -- Regards, Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqRLyAACgkQcAWygvVEyALF4ACdEURczaceHoYVjpxwSqqWorhs EyAAniGbn+JWEgLuMZe1eTO1iUu48WlK =4nI4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
