On 12/9/24 3:05 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > Can anyone explain why, when I go to install KDE-6 pkgs, > Portage tells me that I have to install KDE-5 pkgs as well ? > -- I removed all of KDE-5 back in October : > > root:548 ~> emerge -pv kwayland-integration > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > [ebuild NS ] kde-plasma/kwayland-5.116.0:5/5.116::gentoo > [6.2.4:6::gentoo] USE="-debug -doc% -test" 0 KiB > [ebuild NS ] kde-frameworks/kwindowsystem-5.116.0:5/5.116::gentoo > [6.6.0:6/6.6::gentoo] USE="X -debug -doc -test wayland" 0 KiB > [ebuild N ] kde-plasma/kwayland-integration-6.2.4:5::gentoo > USE="-debug" 26 KiB
In general, you can use the -t option to emerge, which tells you exactly which dependencies are required for what. In this case it's no great mystery: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwayland-integration > This remains Qt 5 only as its features have been moved into > KWindowSystem in KF6, but this is still necessary for compatibility > with Qt 5 apps. Seems like a good enough reason to me -- why did you want to install it? It appears that it is not, in fact, a "KDE-6 pkg" after all. :) > Why indeed is KDE-5 still supported anywhere in Gentoo ? Because not everything has been ported to KDE 6 just because plasma has been? -- Eli Schwartz
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