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able to install 3 & 4 together, no problem.  There is a 'kdeprefix' USE flag
which is supposed to make it possible to even have different minor versions
coexist, each in their own directory. If I understood it right this is not
supposed to be necessary for kde3&4, it's for things like kde4.1&kde4.2 for
example.  I don't really want that, one kde3 (or even just k3b +
dependencies) and one kde4 is fine for me.  I do not have this flag set.
I actually already uninstalled kdelibs3.5 and k3b this time before I wrote
the original message.  It was after that I thought that maybe someone on the
list would know a better way.  As things have been going this only buys me a
week or two before it happens again though so there is still value for me in
asking.  Actually, my updates are still compiling right now.  You've gotta
love screen and nice when using a source based distro!

Thanks for any help / ideas!
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Christopher Volny <cvolny at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Is portage having you uninstall the dependent packages (kdelibs3 k3b) or do
> they quit working and re-emerging fixes that?  Depending on that answer we
> should be able to come up with a better way.  You're right that building a
> local binary package would speed things up for reinstall.  You can use
> package.mask to mask higher versions of whatever package often updates so
> world updates don't break your dependent packages; however, there are
> obvious implications in the event of feature or security changes with new
> versions.
>
> Let me know some more details of what breaks after what, why you're
> uninstalling these packages (manually or emerge telling you to do it), and
> what process you're currently using to resolve this.
>
> Remember, app-portage/gentoolkit is your friend and gives you neat
> utilities
> like revdep-rebuild (for fixing broken deps after updates) and equery (too
> useful to sum up in one email).
>
> Enjoy,
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> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Leif Burrow <talug at unforgettability.net
> >wrote:
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> > I have KDE4 running on Gentoo on my main PC.  So far so good, I'm fairly
> > happy with KDE4 but I really like K3b.  I don't know if or when K3b will
> > get
> > a propper KDE4 port as currently the author has to fork QT to make it
> work
> > and the QT people have already rejected his patch.  There are a bunch of
> > KDE4 on Gentoo howtos out there with different ways to install it (mostly
> > outdated) so I am a little confused as to how exactly mine is intalled
> but
> > I
> > think I have it installed using the method which is supposed to allow KDE
> > major versions to coexist (but not minor ones).  Anyway... each time I
> > emerge updated and there are kde ones I have to unmerge the KDElibs-3 and
> > k3b which depends on it before it will allow me to emerge kde4.2.  After
> > everything is done I can re-emerge kdelibs3 and k3b and it works fine but
> > it's a pretty big waste to keep removing and re-adding kdelibs3 when
> > apparently they can coexist just fine.  I suppose I could make a binary
> > package.... but does anyone have a better idea of how to just stop this
> so
> > I
> > don't have to bother next time?
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