****Re: Help revert from KDE4
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Mar 8 05:02:25 UTC 2008
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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