Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> posted h0sosu$bc...@ger.gmane.org, excerpted below, on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:25:51 +0300:
> On 06/11/2009 11:07 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> I can give you examples why it is good: -you can have multiple >> versions of kde installed > > *If* you want multiple versions. > > >> - it makes updates risk free. You go from X.Y.Z to X.Y.Z+1 or X.Y+1 - >> and before you do so, you just copy the whole kde dir. > > Why not just "quickpkg --include-config=y --include-unmodified-config=y" > all to-be-upgraded packages? Looks just as safe to me. In fact, I do > this on a regular basis. Or with FEATURES=buildpkg, you'll already have stuff binpkged as you merge it, so it's easy enough to revert, just emerge -K =pkg-ver or mask the new version and remerge -K to get the old one. (Altho this will get you the original config, but with kde, most folks don't change the system config anyway, only the package-untouched user config in $HOME.) And it's easy enough to get a package files list from equery and the like, should it become necessary. Plus it should be mentioned that kde-3.5 remains where it is in /usr/kde, so it's still possible to run a 3.5 and a 4.x version together, even when 4.x is in the normal /usr/ dirs. That's important for those of us who haven't and probably won't move off of kde-3.5 for general usage for some time, but still want to experiment with 4.x. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
