With Kde 3.5 and 4.3 installed in separate slots, startx can be used to start one or the other depending on which version of startkde is specified in .xinitrc. BUT kde3 picks up nepomuk/plasma and a host of other crap from kde4. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install kde 3.5 and 4.3 2. edit .xinitrc to start kde3 3. type startx Actual Results: KDE3 comes up with a mixture of KDE3 and KDE4 desktop features. Expected Results: Just KDE3 like before. Please don't tell me to "just use kdm" -- the ability to start several X-sessions at once for different users is critical. KDE is *supposed* to be able to work this way! jesnow@Armstrong ~ $ equery list kde [ Searching for package 'kde' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] kde-base/kde-env-4.3.1 (4.3) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdeaddons-docs-konq-plugins-3.5.10 (3.5) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdeartwork-kscreensaver-3.5.10 (3.5) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdeartwork-kwin-styles-3.5.10 (3.5) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-data-3.5.10 (3.5) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-data-4.3.1 (4.3) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-desktoptheme-4.3.1 (4.3) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.5.10-r1 (3.5) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-4.3.1 (4.3) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-menu-icons-4.3.1 (4.3) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-pam-7 (0) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10-r5 (3.5) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-startkde-4.3.1 (4.3) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-wallpapers-4.3.1 (4.3) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdejava-3.5.10 (3.5) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6 (3.5) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.3.1-r2 (4.3) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdepasswd-3.5.10 (3.5) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.3.1 (4.3) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdeprint-3.5.10 (3.5) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdesktop-3.5.10 (3.5) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdesu-3.5.10 (3.5) [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdesu-4.3.1 (4.3) [I--] [ ] kde-base/phonon-kde-4.3.1 (4.3) [I--] [ ] kde-base/pykde4-4.3.1 (4.3) jesnow@Armstrong ~ $ jesnow@Armstrong ~ $ cat .xinitrc #exec startkde exec /usr/kde/3.5/bin/startkde jesnow@Armstrong ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.31-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r3-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6300_@_1.86GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.phy.olemiss.edu/mirror/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://85.25.128.62" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en-US en" MAKEOPTS="-j10" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/portage" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa apm arts berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 bzlib cairo cdr cli consolekit crypt cups dbus dga directfb dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd evo fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gimp gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde ldap libnotify mad mikmod minimal mmx modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sql sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd thunar tiff truetype unicode usb v4l vorbis webkit win32codecs wmf x264 x86 xcb xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en-US en" SANE_BACKENDS="epson" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Similar to the following: http://bugs.gentoo.org/237718 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243062 But not the same.
KDE 3.5.10 has been masked for removal, this won't be fixed...
