[arch-general] KDE 4.2.0 in [testing]

Dan Vratil progdan at progdansoft.com
Thu Jan 22 20:14:23 EST 2009


On Friday 23 January 2009 01:53:26 Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Dan Vratil <progdan at progdansoft.com> wrote:
> > Also, could please someone confirm me, that KDE 4.1 freezes when
> > updating? After some package was updated, Plasma went frozen and I had to
> > shutdown the X server and finnish the update from console.
>
> This could be serious. If, for some reason, you are updating something
> like bash and dependent libraries at the same time, the upgrade could
> be aborted when bash is updated but dependent libs are not, breaking
> bash. It's probably not likely, but is a possibility (it did happen to
> be once a long time ago)

There were no such important packages. According to log the update was 
successful even when the KDE was frozen. It might be caused by update of 
kdelibs. 
Allan is right, such update should be made out of the DE. I believe, that's 
the reason.

Dan

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