[solved] kde and qt overlays - howto use?

[ulenrich]

I want to test recent versions of
qt-4.8.4
kde-4.9.4

But adding the two overlays qt and kde just gives me - when issued "emerge -auvDN world"
[code]Calculating dependencies ........ done!
[ebuild U ] dev-python/sip-4.14.2_pre20121115:0/9::qt [4.14.1:0/9::gentoo] USE="-debug -doc" 710 kB
[ebuild U ] kde-base/kdebase-pam-9::kde [7::gentoo] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r2::kde [20120417-r1::gentoo] USE="minimal mktemp sha512 systemd (-consolekit) -cracklib -debug -gnome-keyring -pam_krb5 -pam_ssh -passwdqc (-selinux)" 4 kB
[ebuild U ] media-libs/qimageblitz-0.0.6-r1::kde [0.0.6::gentoo] USE="mmx sse sse2 -3dnow (-altivec) -debug" 57 kB
[ebuild U ] app-office/akonadi-server-1.8.80::kde [1.8.1::gentoo] USE="mysql sqlite -postgres {-test}" 0 kB
[ebuild U ] dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.6_pre20121123::qt [4.9.5::gentoo] USE="X assistant dbus declarative kde multimedia opengl phonon sql svg webkit xmlpatterns -debug -doc -examples" 9,762
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... packages I am not targeting for testing in the first place ...
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fun2gen2

[audiodef]

Looks like normal dependencies to me. If you update a package, the ebuild will pull in whatever updates are also necessary. There's no way around it.

And/or: if you're on ~arch and you install an overlay with higher version numbers of existing packages, those will get pulled in. Again, that's to be expected.
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[genstorm]

This is all perfectly fine. Be aware that kde-4.9.4 tarball will only be officially released in two days.
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backend.cpp:92:2: warning: #warning TODO - this error message is about as useful as a cooling unit in the arctic

[ulenrich]

I am using ~amd64

@audiodef, ok these should update, but there are no others - all qt and kde atoms I am interested in are masked

@genstorm, ok I can wait these two days. Will it be available using newer qt libs also?

But if overlays shall help Gentoo maintainers by letting ordinary users test easily - this is the hard way. Shouldn't there be an additional kdetest overlay for easy testing purpose?
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fun2gen2

[genstorm]

The purpose of the overlays is not to provide easy non-masked packages for testing. For kde overlay you will usually find package.unmask and package.keywords files inside the Documentation directory to which you can link from inside your /etc/portage/package.{keywords,unmask} dirs.
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backend.cpp:92:2: warning: #warning TODO - this error message is about as useful as a cooling unit in the arctic

[ulenrich]