Re: ****Re: Help revert from KDE4

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On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 23:43 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> > R. G. Newbury <newbury <at> mandamus.org> writes:
>  >>> > >>HELP!...KDE 4 is a bloody disaster. At the moment, I have no 
> KDE >>"Start"
>  > >
> (...)
>  >> > >And the easiest way to downgrade is to reinstall Fedora 8 from 
> scratch.
>  >> > >Kevin Kofler
>  > >
>  > > And isn't that one HELL of an advert for stupidity too!.
>  > >
>  > > And yes, it is....thankfully I have my data separated but it still 
> takes a
>  > > chunk of time, and now I have to re-update and install a 
> whack-o-crap...
>  > >
> 
>  >Well, you're a bit too nervous. You installed a development version,
>  >guess you made a backup beforehand.
>  >I'll spell it out, d-e-v-e-l-o-p-m-e-n-t version.
> 
> I'm not nervous, I'm bloody mad. I did not *choose* to install a 
> developement version. Fedora 8 added the 'fedora-developement' repo to 
> yum.repos.d. That sis not happen in Fedora 7. THEN, Fedora 8 appears to 
> have automagically done a global update, although I did not ask for 
> that. I was install a particular package for mplayer and used the -y 
> switch. Fedora decided it needed 75 packages updated. I wasn't really 
> watching as I did not suspect that I would be updated into crap.
> 
> Besides the utter stupidity of an install/upgrade methodology which is 
> irreversable, KDE 4 is not yet ready for prime time.
> 
> I have since been able to confirm that Fedora now includes the dev repo 
> as it was created/installed by default on the re-install...and I now 
> have another case of library hell underway and will have to nuke the 
> beast and start again, again. Because if ONE important file gets updated 
> you cannot revert it out without removing the 40 packages which depend 
> on it.
> 
> And no I didn't 'make a backup beforehand'. How could I reasonably make 
> a backup of the entire OS? As it is, my data is on separate partitions. 
> Nuking the / partition is no problem. The waste of time to reinstall is 
> the problem.
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it's included but not enabled by default

enabled=0

each is clearly labeled this way.

But in reality, this shouldn't be that big of a deal to go to runlevel
3, remove KDE-4, disable development if you enabled it, and install kde
all over again.

Craig


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