I've just upgraded by Gentoo's desktop to KDE 3.3. Everything was nicer and smoother (With prelink updated ofcourse, check out my prelinking Gentoo doc here ). After playing around with it for about 2 mins, I realized that my Kopete wasn't working ...... there goes my MSN/ICQ/YAHOO/IRC client.
At first I thought the fault was at the Kdenetwork package, so I reemerged it. Still the same problem occurs. Finally I realized that kde3.3 moved the kde libs to another location and Kopete in the 3.3.0 Kdenetwork package wasn't informed ..... So I just make a link to it, and walla .. its working again.
My Gentoo box is a little messy now. Although the portage system was a good idea, somehow it still makes your system messy with unused packages since the unmerge script doesn't do dependency unmerging. It lacks the control and the older manual installation gives. Well, nothing is perfect .....
Now that I've experienced Gentoo's portage system first hand, I might draw up a guide in the near future about how to becauseful while emerging, so people won't repeat my mistakes, ;p
Which reminds me ... I'm gonna do a clean Gentoo installation soon, and emerge the smarter way ........
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