Kerry - The KDE Beagle Frontend! :D

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:00 am

CptnObvious999 wrote:I see, question for ya, say you want KDE 3.5 but nothing else from the unstable branch, how do you tell portage to only pull KDE 3.5?

Well normally I would say
echo "=kde-base/kde-meta-3.5.1 ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
but kde has a lot of dependancies and you have to make all of them use unstable so I ran this script that will use unstable x86 for all of kde (or all the packages in kde-base):

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cd /usr/portage
for pack in kde-base/*
do echo $pack >> /etc/portage/package.keywords ~x86
done

you could run "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge kde-meta" but when you run emerge -uD world (world update) it would downgrade to stable KDE since it didn't know you wanted unstable. I think the porthole frontend takes care of all that mess for you though but I like commandline

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I see, aren't Gentoo trying to imitate what FreeBSD are doing with their ports system? They had KDE 3.5 just a few weeks after it was released, and it's smooth and stable.

CptnObvious999 · Post by **CptnObvious999** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:57 pm

Tsuroerusu wrote:I see, aren't Gentoo trying to imitate what FreeBSD are doing with their ports system? They had KDE 3.5 just a few weeks after it was released, and it's smooth and stable.

Actually the developer of Gentoo was making it when he ran into some troubles with linux (hardware related I think) and he tried out FreeBSD and liked the ports system so he used a lot of the same ideas in Gentoo and named it Portage after ports. Portage is basically an advanced version of ports for Linux.

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:29 pm

CptnObvious999 wrote:Actually the developer of Gentoo was making it when he ran into some troubles with linux (hardware related I think) and he tried out FreeBSD and liked the ports system so he used a lot of the same ideas in Gentoo and named it Portage after ports. Portage is basically an advanced version of ports for Linux.

OK, I guess Gentoo has their own phase of development, FreeBSD seems to be pretty up to date with packages and apps in the ports system, which I like, yet very stable. I'd like to see an article some day that explains the differences between Gentoo's portage system, and FreeBSD's ports system.

CptnObvious999 · Post by **CptnObvious999** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:56 pm

I too would like to see what differs between Ports and Portage, I know they both have some significant differences. If you want the comlete Gentoo history read this.
Maybe some day I will get around to testing out FreeBSD. I need to get my old computer rebuilt and buy a few more parts.

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:29 pm

CptnObvious999 wrote:I too would like to see what differs between Ports and Portage, I know they both have some significant differences. If you want the comlete Gentoo history read this.
Maybe some day I will get around to testing out FreeBSD. I need to get my old computer rebuilt and buy a few more parts.

Well, if you want to install KDE on Gentoo you do this: emerge kde
If you wanna do it on FreeBSD, you do this: cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 && make install clean

I think the ports system is more of a "Makefile infrastructure" with a database that's shared with the binary package system, because FreeBSD offer a large amount of binary packages, which you can install in sort of an apt-get style like this: pkg_add -r kde