Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:30:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >> Have you considered simply not installing them at all? If you don't want >> apache, cups, syslog-ng and bind you don't take any special steps, you >> simply don't emerge them. >> > > No, but those are single packages, more or less. KDE is hundreds of packages > - > not the same scale at all. > > >> Unless of course you do want kde:3.5 (I don't recall if you mentioned that >> or not). >> > > Yes, where a GUI is installed it's kde:3.5, and I want to keep it, except on > a > test box where it can be kept safely confined. > > >> OT: I really like kde:4 myself, but it's such a different product to >> kde:3.5 that I honestly feel it's official name should have been kde4. If >> the kde devs had done that, your issue would simply never have happened. >> This versioning is causing problems for many people, you are not the only >> one wanting to avoid kde:4 >> > > Oh woe! I've just run a sync and found another 25 of them. The other day I > put > 13 entries into package.mask and that held the fort for the time; now I have > another battle to fight. There will be more, too. > > What I need is an automask to complement autounmask, or perhaps a kde4 USE > flag. > >
I would do as someone else suggested, run autounmask for kde 4 and move the list package.unmask to package.mask. You would likely have to add to that over time but it is at least a start. Keep in mind, once KDE 4 is stable, you can't use autounmask to do this since it is already unmasked. According to -dev, KDE 4 is going stable pretty soon. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287697 It's already in the works. Dale :-) :-)
