KDE Upgrade to 3.0

[der.hans]

Am 04. Apr, 2002 schwätzte Gontran Zepeda so:

> * Tom Achtenberg (tom@christ4me.com) wrote:
> > [ RPM doesn't auto resolve dependencies ... ]
> >
>
> Yet another reason to use a 'modern' distro ;).
>
> Hmm, should I upgrade from KDE2.2 to KDE3?
>
> # emerge kde --pretend
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order.
>
> Calculating dependencies.................. done!
> [ebuild   U] x11-libs/qt-3.0.3 to /
> [ebuild N  ] kde-base/arts-1.0.0 to /
> [ebuild   U] kde-base/kdelibs-3.0 to /
> [ebuild   U] kde-base/kdeadmin-3.0 to /
> [ebuild N  ] kde-base/kdeedu-3.0 to /
> [ebuild   U] kde-base/kdetoys-3.0 to /
> [ebuild   U] kde-base/kdebase-3.0 to /
> [ebuild   U] kde-base/kdenetwork-3.0 to /
> [ebuild N  ] dev-util/pccts-1.33.32-r1 to /
> [ebuild N  ] app-cdr/cdrdao-1.1.5-r1 to /
> [ebuild   U] kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.0 to /
> [ebuild   U] kde-base/kdeaddons-3.0 to /
> [ebuild   U] kde-base/kdegraphics-3.0 to /
> [ebuild   U] kde-base/kdegames-3.0 to /
> [ebuild   U] kde-base/kdeutils-3.0 to /
> [ebuild   U] kde-base/kdepim-3.0 to /
> [ebuild   U] kde-base/kdeartwork-3.0 to /
> [ebuild   U] kde-base/kde-3.0 to /
>
> # emerge kde
>
> Compile overnight.  Coffee && KDE3 at 7.
>
> Do you Gentoo?

So it's apt-getlike, but requires compiling? Is gentoo repackaging and
changing the source or just providing a mechanism that does something like
"./configure && make && make install" to the tarballs with dependency
checking?

For which architectures is it available?

ciao,

der.hans
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