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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