120720 E. Liddell wrote: > 120720 Philip Webb <purslow@...> wrote: >> For most activities, I use Fluxbox on Gentoo with a number of KDE 4 apps. >> However, there are 2 KDE 3 apps which I really value >> & which have not been ported -- or not adequately -- to KDE 4 , >> ie Kmahjongg & Kworldclock; I would also like to keep Ksokoban around. >> KDE 3 is no longer supported by Gentoo & will probably become unusable >> in the near future after some further update of the pkg-manager Portage. > You mean because of the way it's been complaining about the location > of the EAPI line in the kde-sunset ebuilds lately? That's a simple fix: > someone just has to find time to swap the order of the KMNAME & EAPI lines > and the complaints should go away. For such a small set of packages, > you can probably do it in a local overlay until kde-sunset catches up. I submitted Gentoo bug 420849 & was told KDE 3 is no longer supported & would probably become unusable in the near future. That seemed final. >> I would like to install the Trinity versions of the above >> & the correct place for them seems to be /usr/local . >> I don't want to install the rest of Trinity, which I wouldn't use. > Unfortunately, There Is A Problem with creating ebuilds for Trinity > that still use autotools to build, among them kdetoys and kdegames. I wasn't planning to do it via Gentoo ebuilds, but via 'configure make install' into /usr/local/ . Is that feasible ? > Kworldclock was one of the applications that I was *not* able to make work. > We need someone knowledgeable about autotools and the kde-sunset eclasses > to help unravel the knot, and so far no one has volunteered. What we really need is to have ebuilds for Trinity in the Gentoo tree. > You can try building the packages by hand without Portage's intervention: See above. > if you do, please drop a message to the list to tell us how it goes. > Otherwise, you may be stuck waiting for the low-priority packages > to be ported to Cmake along with the rest of us. NB the version of Qt3 > that ships with Trinity is slightly different from 3.3.8b, > so you may need to replace that too, if you go the manual route. Again, what I want is to install the necessary parts of Trinity. > Sorry I can't give you better news. Thanks for the info so far. Do my comments provoke further advice ? -- =======================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca