On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 22:02 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 23:43 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: > > 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. > ---- > 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. I just peeked into my updates email folder and KDE4 is available through updates without the dev repo being used at all. -------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This updates the KDE 4 development platform to the stable release 4.0.0 and Soprano to the stable release 2.0.0 (required by KDE 4.0.0). -------------------------------------------------------------- So, it's considered a stable release, resides in updates and if something decided that KDE4 is a dependency, it'll get dragged in. So, if he installed Soprano or something that depends on it, he would have gotten KDE4. Which may have not gotten all three packages installed if a mistake was made. Maybe when he tries to yum remove it, he'll spot what the cat drug in. I'd like to hear about that. I guess he might very well have a beef and chewing the carpet would be a understandable reaction! It would be in my world, Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
