On Samstag, 19. Januar 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 19 January 2008, Dale wrote: > > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > after the painful and time-consuming creation of > > > /etc/portage/package.unmask for KDE 4, <emerge --pretend --verbose > > > "=kde-base/kde-meta-4.0.0" tells me: [blocks B ] > > > <kde-base/kdebase-3.5.7-r6 (is blocking > > > kde-base/kdelibs-4.0.0) > > > > > > I do not have emerge kdebase-3.5.7 but kdebase-3.5.8. The3refore, I > > > cannot unemerge 3.5.7. How can I work around this? > > > > > > Uwe > > > > For future reference, check out autounmask. I found out about it the > > other day. I have not used it yet but I'm hopeful it works. > > I'll have look into autounmask. > > > Also, there is a thread on the forums about this, I think you have to > > have 3.5.8* version to do this. Not sure why tho. Isn't KDE 4.0 > > slotted? Can't you have 3.5 AND 4.0 installed and select which version > > you want to log into? > > Exactly. So why is kdebase-3.5.7-r6 (which is not even installed here) > blocking kdelibs-4.0.0? >
error in ebuild? I did not have that block. Maybe you should remove the blocker from the ebuild. Apart from that, kde4 installed very nice in parallel to 3.5 - in 2.5h (with qt4 rebuilt). Sadly I can not use it - because of a reiser4 problem... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list