On Saturday 13 June 2009 01:54:45 Francisco Ares wrote: > Thanks a lot! It's not completely obvious from Dirk's post (what he said is completely accurate though), but kde-3.5.10 will not receive monolithic ebuilds (dev decision). If you want kde-3.5.10, there is only one way to do it -
Unmerge your existing kde monolithic packages Rememerge the new kde split packages There's a good migration guide at gentoo.org, called "Migrating to KDE split ebuilds" or some such. A quick search will find it for you. > > Francisco > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinri...@online.de>wrote: > > Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 22:45:49 schrieb Francisco Ares: > > > And how do I tell if an ebuild is monolithic or not? > > > > The monolithic ones install larger parts of KDE, and usually have the > > same names as the original source packages offered at KDE.org. > > > > The split ebuilds, well, split those packages into their individual > > applications, so you have ebuilds for konqueror (which is also part of > > kdenetwork) or kmail (kdepim). In addition, there are the "-meta" > > ebuilds, which have the same name as the monolitic ones, but with -meta > > appended (kdepim-meta). Those usually install the same applications than > > monolithic ebuilds, but as split ebuilds. > > > > So, when you install kde, you get a complete KDE from monolithic ebuilds > > and > > when you install kde-meta, you get a complete KDE from split ebuilds. > > > > That's also the reason why they block each other. When you have kdepim > > installed, you already got kmail, so you shouldn't install kmail from the > > split ebuild again. > > > > HTH... > > > > Dirk -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
