31 March 2008 - 9:12gentoo and kde4

As it is written in the package information, KDE4 still is masked. Those who cannot wait (like us) have to face a long and struggling road. To ease things up a little bit, we hacked some shell-aid. Like this:

while [ `emerge kde-base/kde-meta:kde-4 -vp | grep -c "masked by:"` != "0" ]; do _THING=`emerge kde-base/kde-meta:kde-4 -vp | grep -m1 “masked by:” | awk ‘{print $2}’`; echo “$_THING”; echo “=$_THING” >> /etc/portage/package.keywords ;echo “=$_THING” >> /etc/portage/package.unmask; done

to be continued…

Somewhere, the compile process hangs during a package of kde-base-meta. We’re giving kde4 up for the moment, as it disturbs the whole system. (Actually it forced us to remove qt3 which is necessary for kde3 – the kfilepicker for instance.) Seems like we really should wait for a stable gentoo version. Doh!