Re: Dependencies of KDE 3

Philip Webb wrote:
> 121120 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Igor Korot <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'm trying to install KDE 3 from kde-sunset overlay
>>> compiler error -- snipped
>>> mDNSResponder ebuild is not in the tree.
> I ran into this problem & found help via the list :
> have a look at the list archive for the end of October.
> I got mDNSResponder from a Gentoo obsolete-pkg archive,
> copied it temporarily into /usr/portage/ , enabled it in  package.unmask
> & got it installed successfully.  After that, I removed it from Portage,
> but of course the compiled files are still in my system,
> so the rest of KDE 3 which I use ( 3 pkgs only) work.
> The correct way to deal with such a dep is via a Portage local overlay.
>


I'm going to post what is really several messages.  I have this stored
locally so it is easier to search for things than on the web.  Here is
the exchange between a few folks on this:

> E. Liddell wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:06:03 -0400
>> Philip Webb <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> 121029 E. Liddell wrote:
>>>> The following USE flags allow kdelibs to compile successfully for me:
>>>> [ebuild   R   ~] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r10::kde-sunset  USE="acl alsa branding jpeg2k spell tiff -arts -avahi -bindist -cups -debug -doc -fam -kdehiddenvisibility -kerberos -legacyssl -lua -openexr -utempter"
>>> What I get is :
>>>
>>>   root:519 ~> USE="acl alsa branding jpeg2k spell tiff -arts -avahi -bindist -cups -debug -doc -fam -kdehiddenvisibility -kerberos -legacyssl -lua -openexr -utempter" emerge -pv =kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r10
>>>
>>>   These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>>   Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>
>>>   emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "net-misc/mDNSResponder".
>>>   (dependency required by "kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r10[-bindist,-avahi]" [ebuild])
>>>   (dependency required by "=kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r10" [argument])
>>>
>>> How do you manage to get away with "-avahi" ?
>> A-*ha*.
>>
>> It looks like mDNSResponder was lastrited out of the main Portage tree only
>> three months ago.  Presumably I "got away" with -avahi because I had
>> mDNSResponder installed previous to its removal from the Portage tree,
>> so it exists on my system as a sort of phantom (Portage knows it's installed
>> and can link stuff to it, but there's no associated ebuild).
>>
>> mDNSResponder ebuilds should be obtainable from 
>> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-misc/mDNSResponder/?hideattic=0
>>
>> As the changelog indicates that the last tweak to this package was ~6 months
>> ago, I would expect it to still compile.
>>
>> If anyone from kde-sunset is still reading this thread, I would suggest adopting
>> this package into the overlay.
>>
>>

That should help.  If you want to do a local overlay, just check out the
guide on Gentoo.org or the wiki.  It's not hard and last I looked, they
give step by step instructions. 

Hope that helps.

Dale

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