there are a lot of things I need to tell you.

1) KDE 4.0.1 is hitting our Entropy repository (yay!), it’s still masked and will be kept this way until 4.1, strictly following Gentoo policy. You could ask why, I have an answer that probably no Gentoo dev will ever tell you: ebuilds. There are a lot of ebuilds with broken DEPEND/PDEPEND/RDEPEND: in two ways, first they didn’t get a proper *DEPEND split (have a look at x11-libs/qt-3.3.8-r4, NO RDEPEND declared => do you think I also have time to report every single bug? No, sorry, I don’t have much, I can’t be in charge of it too), second, some ebuilds don’t respect slots in *DEPEND, some contain atoms like “>=kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5″,”kde-base/kdelibs” instead of: “=kde-base/kdelibs-3.5*” or the new way “kde-base/kdelibs:3.5″. So, those are, I bet the main reasons to keep KDE 4.0.x masked on Gentoo. Things that could be fixed by just using grep and having 1-2 spare hours.

2) 3.5 Loop2, yeah, I think we’ll have the second beta for the end of February.

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