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List:       gentoo-amd64
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-amd64]  Re: KDE 4.2.4 and kdeprefix
From:       Markos Chandras <hwoarang () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2009-06-23 19:34:02
Message-ID: 200906232234.02997.hwoarang () gentoo ! org
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On Tuesday 23 June 2009 22:28:43 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Dienstag 23 Juni 2009, Markos Chandras wrote:
> > > On 06/23/2009 09:40 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > > On Dienstag 23 Juni 2009, Mark Haney wrote:
> > > >> Okay, I took a week off to hit my beach house in the Outer Banks and
> > > >> now I'm back and ready to roll.  I was in the middle of my KDE 4.2.4
> > > >> upgrade when I left (most is done, just a few things like
> > > >> kdeedu-meta need to be merged) and now I find that when I get back
> > > >> and sync up, doing a update of kdeedu-meta-4.2.4 has the
> > > >> '-kdeprefix' as a new use flag.  I didn't see this before.  Is this
> > > >> now a required USE flag for KDE?
> > > >>
> > > >> If so I need to blow away my existing packages and build everything
> > > >> new, so what's the best way to do that with the minimum of fuss?
> > > >
> > > > kdeprefix has been masked ( a simple grep for it in
> > > > /usr/portage/porfiles would have told you that).
> > > >
> > > > And yes, you have to start new.
> > > >
> > > > The savest way is to deinstall all kde packages - I didn't do that
> > > > (in fact, I even had kde running while doing the switch), and it was
> > > > ok.
> > > >
> > > > Either way, kdeprefix is gone.
> > >
> > > I'm baffled.  This should have at least deserved some announcement. 
> > > I'm subscribed to mailing lists and all the feeds on gentoo.org (Planet
> > > Gentoo and whatever.)  Silence.  This is not good.  Someone has to
> > > inform us every now and then about what's going on, even if it's just a
> > > one-liner written posted in 10 seconds....
> >
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml
> > there is such announcement on **Official** kde4 guide for Gentoo
>
> what he means is:
> a mail to gentoo-user, -announce and or a news item on gentoo.org would
> have been the right thing to do.
>
> And that is something I support.
A gentoo news item would have been excellent. I admit that we failed on that
-- 
Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Qt/Sound/Sunrise]
Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org

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