On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:42:48 +0200 Adriaan de Groot <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote: > [where did this discussion take place, earlier? this is the first I've seen > it] > > So, there are roughly two migration paths: supposing someone has x11/kde4 > installed, which has dependencies on many applications and a Plasma 4 > desktop, > kde@ wants (wanted) to make it possible to migrate to a still-KDE4 desktop, > while renaming everything to have a -kde4 suffix. The other path is to > migrate > to the latest-and-greatest-from-KDE .. we don't have a metaport for that, and > if we do get one it probably won't be called x11/kde5. > > For single applications, the migration looks similar: you had, around january > 2018, port <foo>. That's the KDE4 version. Now there is port <foo>-kde4, if > you want to stick to KDE4 software (which is no longer released upstream, and > is based on an EOL toolkit, but some people feel quite strongly about this). > Ports <foo> are returning, without a suffix, to mean "the latest-and-greatest- > version-of-<foo>". This is consistent with other ports which have a <foo>, > sometimes a <foo>-devel for upcoming things, and a <foo>-<version> for older > versions if you have specific dependencies on old versions. > > Historically, things were a mess with naming with the KDE ports. We think > we've got a good scheme now: <foo>-kde4 (and in the far future, <foo>-kf5) > for > versions of the software based on an older stack, and <foo> for the current > one. But the pain of getting from the mess to something better organized has > to happen at some point.
What happens when you run pkg upgrade on a 6 months old installation of KDE4? _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
