KDE Split Ebuilds - what to include [tiny-mini-howto]

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requemao · Post by **requemao** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:44 am

step wrote:kde 3.4 split is way to go

i did not use "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86".

what i did is this:
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ls /usr/portage/kde-base | awk '{ print "kde-base/"$1" ~x86" }' >>/etc/portage/package.keywords
(previous scrit is from this forum, thanx!)

then i added some other packages like
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sys-libs/db ~x86
media-libs/xine-lib ~x86
dev-util/calltree ~x86
dev-util/callgrind ~x86
to /etc/portage/package.keywords .

Then I commented out all the "bad stuff" like:
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# kde-base/kde ~x86
# kde-base/kdeaddons ~x86
# kde-base/kdeadmin ~x86
# kde-base/kdeartwork ~x86
# kde-base/kdebase ~x86
# kde-base/kdeedu ~x86
# kde-base/kdegames ~x86
# kde-base/kdegraphics ~x86
# kde-base/kdemultimedia ~x86
# kde-base/kdenetwork ~x86
# kde-base/kdepim ~x86
# kde-base/kdetoys ~x86
# kde-base/kdeutils ~x86
# kde-base/libkdeedu ~x86
(so my "emerge world" will work next time)

and emerged the following packages :
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emerge kde-base/kscreensaver kde-base/kmenuedit kde-base/kuickshow kde-base/kwin kde-base/kicker kde-base/konsole kde-base/konqueror kde-base/ksysguard kde-base/kdm kde-base/ksplashml kde-base/ksmserver kde-base/kreadconfig kde-base/kdesktop kde-base/kcheckpass kde-base/kpersonalizer kde-base/kdebase-startkde kde-base/ksim dev-libs/libusb kde-base/kate

Hi there, I'm new to Gentoo, coming from Ubuntu. I've tried this method, but I keep getting errors because some packages are still masked, even though I check they are actually listed in the newly created /etc/portage/package.keywords file. The first package to give this error is kde-base/kmenuedit, and if I manually comment it out from /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask then some other masking problem arises, and I don't think I should be messing with package.mask anyway.

What am I doing wrong?

By the way, maybe I'm wrong from the beginning: I have a laptop running a Pentium 4 @ 1.8GHz, and I want to have a reliable (stable), fast desktop environment. I am used to the way things work in Debian-based distros (you choose only stable repositories, then do "apt-get upgrade this-or-that-package" and you get the latest version marked as stable) and I'm not sure whether I should be unmasking packages if I want a stable system. Maybe I should stick to an earlier, fully-tested version of kde. If so, how do I do that?

Thanks for your patience.

taskara · Post by **taskara** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:14 pm

Hi requemao,

Firstly, if you are having a problem, post the error - we'll be more than happy to help you

but need it to see what's actually happening.

Under gentoo, ~x86 packages are generally the latest stable releases from the authors, but they may not be fully tested under a gentoo system.

Packages that are -* or masked are generally the bleeding edge packages that have not really been tested at all, or are beta versions.

I would say that generally an entire system built on ~x86 packages will be stable, however you may have a few issues along the way because it may not be 100% gentoo stable yet, and so there may be package dependency errors that you need to fix manually. Not big deal, just a little more work for you

Having said that, if you want to us a "stable" (non ~x86) system, then you probably can't use this method in this thread.

This method was introduced for kde 3.4 under gentoo and and I do not think that kde 3.4 has been marked as the stable release yet.

This means if you do NOT use ~x86 for kde, then you will probably end up with kde 3.3.4 rather than 3.4.1. Personally, I think kde 3.4.1 is worth the risk

and for me it has been very fast and stable. (I'm actually still running 3.4.0).

So, if you want to try kde 3.4.1, then post the error and we'll help you - there is probably just a new dependency required that I don't know about because I wrote this guide for 3.4.0.

Hope you enjoy Gentoo.. it's a bit of a learning curve but boy is it rewarding once you get your head around it

-c

IRuediger · Post by **IRuediger** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 3:04 am

This is my first time installing Gentoo, I did a stage 2 install and right after the install I compiled Xorg and then followed the steps described on the guide, but somehow I ended up with KDE 3.3

To be more precise it seems to be a mix of 3.3 and 3.4 (since there is a 3.4 directory), but when I run startx I can only login on 3.3.

What I could have done wrong?

taskara · Post by **taskara** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 3:09 am

IRuediger wrote:This is my first time installing Gentoo, I did a stage 2 install and right after the install I compiled Xorg and then followed the steps described on the guide, but somehow I ended up with KDE 3.3

To be more precise it seems to be a mix of 3.3 and 3.4 (since there is a 3.4 directory), but when I run startx I can only login on 3.3.

What I could have done wrong?

very good question!!

what else did you emerge? you must have either left something OUT of package.keywords, or you have emerged something that is not included in kde 3.4 and hence installed kde 3.3 components.

could you post your /etc/portage/package.keywords and your /var/lib/portage/world files?

and the output of

KDE Split Ebuilds - what to include [tiny-mini-howto]

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