2009/6/12 Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> > 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. >
finally, 4.3 will mark the removal of my old 3.5 installation. i think that for about 90% of people will be finally able to switch entirely to kde4. The apps are now mostly complete and the 3.5 apps that are still maintained have now been ported; plasma is ok and quite customizable, the backends are working well, with the exception of pulseaudio that is now having some problems with the phonon backend when used in conjuction with flash and old apps that lock directly the physical card, but i suspect that this is due to some configuration issue. Well, anyway, if any of you has tried to have kde4.x and kde-svn running on the same installation would have a lot of problems. the prefix is not working very well and there are quite some problems with apps identifying the wrong path. -- dott. ing. beso
