On 07/08/12 12:51, E. Liddell wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:35:51 -0400 > Tony Rein<trein@...> wrote: > >> It sounds like maybe I just need to wait until things stabilize a bit. >> Is there any way I can help with testing? I'm not a coder, but I know >> how to use a command line and follow directions. I wouldn't call myself >> "c++ literate," but I can read it a little bit. > Unfortunately, what we need most right now is someone who can help > unravel the tangle we've gotten into with respect to Portage and the > autotools-dependant packages. Until that happens, or the remaining > packages are ported to cmake, we're pretty much at a standstill. > > Testing is always welcome, though. What Roman and I were able > to get working was the equivalent of kdebase-meta, kdeartwork-meta, > most of kdegraphics-meta, a few bits of kdenetwork (kmail, kopete) > and kdeutils, and some third-party stuff (kaffeine, amarok). Just > checking to see if these will emerge for you and reporting back any > errors would be some help. I will try this and report back. Right now I'm actually re-installing my entire Gentoo system, so it will be a few days before I will have anything to report. Thanks to you and Roman for your hard work on this. > >> I have tried to make the kde-sunset overlay work a couple of times. The >> most recent time I almost got kdelibs to compile successfully, but then >> ran into an error involving cups and an include-file that wasn't >> included. That's when I started looking at the tde overlays. > Hmmm. I have kde-sunset's kdelibs working here (with cups 1.5.2-r4), > but I don't know when the last time was that I had to re-merge it. Did > you pass the error along to the gentoo-desktop ML? > Not yet. I need to re-try the operation and see if I get the same error. Part of my problem might have been that I was working on a weird Sabayon/Gentoo hybrid, which I imagine could have led to some version conflicts. That's why I'm re-installing -- so I'll be on a known, all-Gentoo platform. Tony