I've found out that there are some packages out of kde-basse that are pulling 3.5.10 packages while they're still masked ~x86
One is Amarok. Another, probably, is Ktorrent. Anyone has seen it or am I the only one not using KDE 4 ;-) ? Best regards to all Francisco On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > > -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw
