behrouz khosravi wrote: > Hi. I wanted to install plasma 5 on my laptop, but I encountered a lot > of problems regarding dependencies, masking and other stuff. > > Since I felt a little stubbornness in myself, and didn't want to back > off ! > I took another approach. I checked that what packages will be installed. > After that I removed the qt4 and installed all of the required qt5 > packages from qt-5.4.0 one by one and using the specific version. > After that I did the same with qt-framework packages and so on. > > I think that this is generally a bad idea, because the it makes the > World set much bigger. > However I am wondering what will happen when the tree updates? > I mean for examples when another version of qt5 comes out, portage > will try to update it ? > > thanks. >
I think you can edit the world file and make the qt packages look something like this: dev-qt/qtcore:5 Basically, remove the specific version and just tell it you want the 5 slot. Then when something new comes out, it should upgrade. Of course, those versions will either have to be stable or in the needed keyword/unmask file. Just a thought. Someone else may have a even better idea/plan. Dale :-) :-)
