Jon Hardcastle wrote:
Hi I am trying to run revdep-rebuild and it gets to the emerge stage and i get
this
!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "kde-base/kdelibs:3.5" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6 (masked by: package.mask)
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> (31 Dec 2009)
# Doesn't compile anymore with Autoconf >= 2.64, wv2 >= 0.4.0,
# several open security bugs, ...
#
# Replaced by app-office/koffice-meta-2.1.0
#
# See bugs 274566, 274918, 279027, 279482, 283429, 285018, 294676,
# 287276, 292791, ...
#
# Masked for removal in 30 days
#
does anyone have any advice? I have tried to force the emerge but i dont really
know what i am doing :-/
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This is where you get to choose. You either have to use layman to keep
KDE 3.5 around or move over to KDE 4, which there are still some things
that don't work. KDE 3.5 has been masked and will be removed from the
portage tree, according to the error above.
You may be able to unmask it until it is removed but either way, you
will have to use layman eventually. If you plan to unmask it for now, I
would check out autounmask. I suspect there will be a lot of them
masked. Doing them one by one could take a while.
Dale
:-) :-)
P. S. Don't blame Gentoo for this. KDE is the one that decided not to
maintain KDE 3.5 even tho KDE 4 is not ready yet. The good thing about
Gentoo is that it builds from sources. The bad thing is, it builds from
sources. When the sources stop, Gentoo has to remove them.
