Helmut Jarausch writes: > emerge @preserved-rebuild fails to do any updating since a single > (needed) package has been masked. > But I do need to keep kdelibs:3.5 which pulls in > kde-misc/kdnssd-avahi:3.5 which has been masked. > > Is it possible to tell emerge to do the other updates which don't need > this? > > Dropping kde:3.5 too early is one of the biggest disappointsment of > GenToo! For someone who needs some package depending on it, it's really > hard. (I do need kexi)
Well, it's still all there, not in the official Gentoo portage tree, but in the kde-sunset overlay. Get it, unmask all the KDE 3.5 stuff, and all should be fine again. See this guide for details: http://www.linuxized.com/2009/11/how-to-keep-your-kde-3-5-after-its- removed-gentoos-tree-using-the-kde-sunset-overlay/ weird ~ # eix kdnssd-avahi * kde-misc/kdnssd-avahi Available versions: (3.5) {M}0.1.2[1] {M}0.1.2-r1 {M}0.1.2-r1[1] {arts debug elibc_FreeBSD xinerama} Homepage: http://wiki.kde.org/tiki- index.php?page=Zeroconf+in+KDE Description: DNS Service Discovery kioslave using Avahi (rather than mDNSResponder) [1] "kde-sunset" /usr/local/portage/layman/kde-sunset weird ~ # emerge -ptv kdnssd-avahi These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] kde-misc/kdnssd-avahi-0.1.2-r1 USE="(-arts) -debug - xinerama" 739 kB [1] [ebuild N ] net-dns/avahi-0.6.24-r2 USE="dbus gdbm gtk ipv6 python qt4 -autoipd -bookmarks -doc -howl-compat -mdnsresponder-compat -mono -qt3 -test" 1,090 kB [1] [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libdaemon-0.13-r1 USE="-doc -examples" 360 kB [0] Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 2,188 kB Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage/tree [1] /usr/local/portage/layman/kde-sunset Wonko
