On Monday 12 October 2009 11:30:22 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > OT: I really like kde:4 myself, but it's such a different product to > > kde:3.5 that I honestly feel it's official name should have been kde4. If > > the kde devs had done that, your issue would simply never have happened. > > This versioning is causing problems for many people, you are not the only > > one wanting to avoid kde:4 > > Oh woe! I've just run a sync and found another 25 of them. The other day I > put 13 entries into package.mask and that held the fort for the time; now > I have another battle to fight. There will be more, too.
Yes, there will be more. And it's not likely to stop. It really is a pity that two different products have the same name with different slots. Causes no end of trouble, as you are seeing. But it's too late to change it now > What I need is an automask to complement autounmask, or perhaps a kde4 USE > flag. autounmask outputs a file, right? Move it from the package.unmask to the package.mask area - the format is the same for both. A USE flag won't help you here. USE s to enable/disable *features* of certain packages, not enable/disable entire packages or prevent them from being installed. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
