Re: [arch-general] ? regarding latest Dont Panic updates, and KDE4

2008-07-30 Thread richard terry
Just upgraded an arch box I've not done any upgrades on for over 12/12 (didn't even had /etc/pacman.d/ directories, not sure when they changed. Had one problem - gcc-libs had to be manually upgraded, because x wouldn't start and was missing a file I think called libgcc_s.so.1. However after th

Re: [arch-general] ? regarding latest Dont Panic updates, and KDE4

2008-07-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday 31 July 2008 01:40:20 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > I suppose sooner or later I'll find > > some distro or other has KDE4 as default, and will have to go with it, > > but having seen many problems on the Fedora list, admittadly with > > kde-4.0, with promises that t

Re: [arch-general] ? regarding latest Dont Panic updates, and KDE4

2008-07-30 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 22:14, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > If you want to stay with KDE3 short term, this forum thread tells you > > how. (i.e., add a bunch of Ignore's to your pacman.conf.) > > Whoop! Forgot to paste the thread URL: > > http://bbs.archlinux.org/vi

Re: [arch-general] ? regarding latest Dont Panic updates, and KDE4

2008-07-30 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Wed 2008-07-30 17:18, Daenyth Blank wrote: > > The KDEmod repo is a possibility. A couple of things give me pause about > > using it though: 1) it's not really "stock" KDE packages; they're split > > into modules; they're heavily patched; etc., and > > Just to clarify, KDEmod uses only 2 patc

Re: [arch-general] ? regarding latest Dont Panic updates, and KDE4

2008-07-30 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Daenyth Blank wrote: The KDEmod repo is a possibility. A couple of things give me pause about using it though: 1) it's not really "stock" KDE packages; they're split into modules; they're heavily patched; etc., and Just to clarify, KDEmod uses only 2 patches: - The background of the splash sc

Re: [arch-general] ? regarding latest Dont Panic updates, and KDE4

2008-07-30 Thread Daenyth Blank
> The KDEmod repo is a possibility. A couple of things give me pause about > using it though: 1) it's not really "stock" KDE packages; they're split > into modules; they're heavily patched; etc., and Just to clarify, KDEmod uses only 2 patches: - The background of the splash screen, it says "KDE

Re: [arch-general] ? regarding latest Dont Panic updates, and KDE4

2008-07-30 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David Rosenstrauch wrote: If you want to stay with KDE3 short term, this forum thread tells you how. (i.e., add a bunch of Ignore's to your pacman.conf.) Whoop! Forgot to paste the thread URL: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=52416 DR

Re: [arch-general] ? regarding latest Dont Panic updates, and KDE4

2008-07-30 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Nigel Henry wrote: The second question, as I've seen a whole bunch of problems with KDE4 on mainly the Fedora list, but also on the Kubuntu list where folks using Hardy Heron 8.04 have decided to try KDE4, rather than the default KDE3.5, is, does KDE4 run ok on Don't Panic, without totally scre

[arch-general] ? regarding latest Dont Panic updates, and KDE4

2008-07-30 Thread Nigel Henry
I've been downloading iso's on dialup for some days, so havn't updated much on my OS's. Last time I updated Dont Panic on my new machine was 20080709. A pacman -Sy, followed by pacman -Su rung some alarm bells when it said arts was going to be replaced "yes, or no?". Well ages back I'd read that