Re: Pin to keep kde3.5.9?
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:00:35 +0200, Alejandro Exojo wrote:
> El Domingo, 12 de Abril de 2009, Jan De Luyck escribió:
> > Hello,
> >
> > After several unsuccessful tries... does anyone know what I have to
> > pin/hold to keep KDE 3.5.9 instead of 4.2.2 in unstable?
>
> That depends on which parts of KDE 3.5 do you want to keep. Can you be more
> specific? If you want to keep all KDE based applications on the old version,
> you will have to hold them individually, AFAIK, because I don't think it's
> possible to keep on hold a not-installed package (if that were possible, you
> could hold kdelibs5).
Pinning kdelibs5 to a negative priority should prevent it from ever
being installed. This should in turn keep all KDE4 packages off your
system. I have not tried this myself, though.
> However, I strongly recommend you to give a try to at least some KDE 4
> applications, even if you keep the old desktop. You can very safely upgrade
> one, test it, and go back to the previous version if you find something
> unbearable.
>
> All the trivial or non-critical ones I've tried work the same, or even better
> (e.g. kcharselect, ksnapshot). The games and educational apps work very well,
> too. KTorrent, Okular, Dolphin are awesome additions, and are rock solid to
> me. JuK and KNotes have glitches, but are perfectly usable, and I prefer to
> suffer the bugs so I can report them and make sure that are fixed, that hide
> the problem under the carpet. :-)
I agree wholeheartedly.
Thank you so much, Ana, Alejandro, Fathi, Lisandro, Mark, Modestas,
Raúl, Sune, and all the other members of the Debian KDE team, for the
wonderful job that you have done with KDE4!
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