Re: has the sun set ?

On 01/06/15 19:33, Philip Webb wrote:
> [ forwarded to Gentoo-Desktop, the list given for Kde-Sunset ]
> 
> Using Kde-Sunset, I have  3  useful apps available in forms
> which aren't provided by KDE 4 (Kworldclock Ksokoban Kmahjongg).
> 
> Yesterday, while doing my weekly system update, I encountered a msg :
> 
>   !!! The following installed packages are masked:
>   - media-libs/lcms-1.19-r1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
>   /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
>   # Matthias Maier <[email protected]> (27 May 2015)
>   # on behalf of Andreas K. Huettel <[email protected]>
>   # media-libs/lcms:0 has serious security issues and is unmaintained,
>   # see bug 526642. Please uninstall it and/or upgrade to media-libs/lcms:2
> 
> I looked at the bug, which explains the reason for dropping Lcms:0 .
> 
> Unfortunately, Kde-Sunset appears to require Lcms:0 for Libmng:0 ,
> which is required by Qt-Meta:3 & which aren't included in Kde-Sunset itself.
> For now, I can simply ignore the warning, but it looks
> as if it wb no longer possible to install Kde-Sunset on a new machine.
> 
> I realise Gentoo itself doesn't provide support for Kde-Sunset,
> but does anyone know of a way round this obstacle or have other advice ?
> 

lcms:0 can always be added to the overlay too.