kde 3.4 Good idea?

turkystuffing · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 49 Location: UK

kde-meta doesn't seem to have even a ~amd64 flag yet. Is it advisable to try emerging it yet?
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qnx · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:04 pm Post subject:

Though I'm running x86 and therefore cannot speak about the arch-specific issues, I can tell you it's definitivly worth upgrading KDE.
You ask if it's worth trying to compile.. Well, give me a reason why it wouldn't?

If you have bad luck it simpely won't build... :roll:

Good luck!
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Garwin · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 8:25 pm Post subject:

i dont know about the kde-meta ebuild, because i have used the split-ebuilds.

until now, no problems with kde-3.4 on my amd64 system.

turkystuffing · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 49 Location: UK

WOW, fast replys!
Thanks guys, I'll give it a shot. Can't be worse than WM, but I quite like that so...
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Code · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 98

I'm running 3.3 right now, how would I go about upgrading to 3.4?

Would I have to unmerge all things KDE related, then emerge the new ones? Or is there an update feature built into emerge/portage ?

Wolle · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:49 am Post subject:

andrewd18 · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 7:19 am Post subject:

<insert obligatory Gnome-is-better-than-KDE flame here>
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turkystuffing · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 49 Location: UK

Thanks andrewd18, very useful ;-)

Slots? Eh? I presumed that it would unmerge 3.3 ... when I was working thrugh putting the packages into package.keywords I got bored after about 9, is there a way to list / automatically add them?

I'll check out that link when I get home.

Thanks again guys.
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OddFox · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:21 pm Post subject:

KDE 3.4.0 works beautifully over here, highly recommended.

I emerged with "emerge kde" and then after a day or so removed KDE 3.3 since it was still there because it is in a different slot. So you don't have to worry about pretty much anything, really, with this process.

EDIT: I'm using ~amd64, and here's my package.keywords:

cryos · Retired Dev Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Posts: 242 Location: US

KDE 3.4 is working really well overall. There are still a few small issues with GCC visibility and a subtle bug in KDE 3.4 which causes segfaults in kasteroids. Due to this issue (which is just about resolved now), kdegames-meta and kde-meta cannot be marked ~amd64 until kasteroids is. I am using the desktop full time, and apart from a few small issues still outstanding it is a very good and stable release.

I am really busy right now with real life stuff, but will hopefully have the remaining issues resolved fairly soon. I do try to read feedback if there are still issues remaining on amd64 with KDE 3.4 but the split ebuilds work very well. Please do search for/file bugs in Bugzilla if you spot any we haven't yet

Garwin · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:20 pm Post subject:

@turkystuffing
taken from the "split ebuilds"-thread in Desktop Environment:

ls /usr/portage/kde-base | awk '{ print "kde-base/"$1" ~amd64" }' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

turkystuffing · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 49 Location: UK

Thanks for that copy tip, I keep my file a bit more organised though so have copied it to a text file then transfered. I won't post it here but if any amd64 devs want to see what is working for me but still masked I'll send you it.

I'm about to emerge so I'll keep ya'll posed.
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Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 5:22 pm Post subject:

qnx · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:38 pm Post subject:

I still would like to recommend kde-meta packages. But you'll need to unmask all 314 (or something) ebuilds. I have a copy for ~x86 though, so perhaps someone else have the correct one for ~amd64.
When it's there just emerge kdebase-meta <add more stuff you want here like> kopete <or/and> kmail
and so on..

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cryos · Retired Dev Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Posts: 242 Location: US

You don't actually need the ~amd64 bit for packages in packages.keywords - here is what is in my packages.unmask/packages.keywords for KDE. I think they are all there, let me know if any are missing. As I said kasteroids, and the metas that dep on it are still not keyworded. You can just append this list to your existing packages.keywords.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~cryos/kde.keywords

turkystuffing · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 49 Location: UK

right, erm. here we are then. taken about 24 hours from when I set it off to coming back from skool.

So what am I suppost to be impressed by? No really, its got a new loading splash and kicker icon and what? Oh kopete now has the bug i reported about 5 months ago, MSN uk now works.

I'll keep playing! Good work though guys. "emerge kde" did it.
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OddFox · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:40 pm Post subject:

turkystuffing · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 49 Location: UK

Ok, thanks for all the info guys! Tip, if you want sfx use=arts... (yep, silly mistake)

I'v installed it after but it segfaults when I try and use it...

And next time I'll have a proper read of the announcements before asking a silly question like that!
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