Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:54:12 -0700 From: Mike Porter <mupi@mknet.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: KDE2 problems Message-ID: <01010908541201.07323@mukappa.home.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 just a minor quibble/beef or something of that nature..... It seems that installing the kdenetwork2 port without the kdebase port APPEARS to work, but in fact is broken. Either kdebase2 needs to be added to the dependency list for kdenetwork2 or the necessary code for supporting pop3 needs to be moved into kdenetwork2 (or maybe kdelibs2 or kdesupport2) from kdebase2. (It's possible that there is more than just that, but that's the only one that bit me, so it's the only one I can tell you about). OK, now the details....I recently decided to upgrade my X to 4.0.2_3. This worked OK. I did not expect it to be exactly trouble-free, and in the process, of course, I had to rebuild QT and then KDE. Since all I really do with KDE is use Kmail (I like the GNOME interface, but frankly the available mail clients suck), I decided that to conserve some space, I'd only install kdenetwork (which contains the kmail program). Since Gnome has some integration with KDE, it worked great in the past. Of course, there were a bunch of dependencies installed by kdenetwork, including kdesupport, kdelibs, etc. When I was finished, everything seemed to work until I hit "check mail" in KMail. It retrieved my local mail, including the stuff that I have fetchmail running for, but I also have several other "remote" mailboxes whose contents for various reasons I don't want dumped generically into my systems incoming mail queue. I have set those up in Kmail, and they worked great before the upgrade. After the upgrade, I got a "error: Pop3: Unknown protocol" and it refused to get my mail. So I decided to start installing the rest of KDE2 one peice at a time, and see when it started to work. I got as far as installing kdebase2 (the first thing I tried) and now it works fine. Therefore, some necessary part of kmail or its associated libraries ( i don't pretend to know how the various parts of the various desktops talk to each other) isn't installed until kdebase is installed, and therefore, its presence should be verified on installing kdenetwork. I would be perfectly happy to see just the necessary libraries moved, if that's possible, but while that would fix MY problem, there may be otehr similar problems further down the road. Also, I would imagine that it would be far simpler to simply add a port dependency than to try to ferret out where a specific piece of code is, especially with something as large as KDE. mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjpbNCgACgkQZ7GovTQbIm4xTQCeP5I70cYX2i0668HiNL8xT62N 09gAmwXRMlSwlAganhfZORgjPsunF0qP =YlBl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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