-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: > Phonon is KDE's multimedia framework. Trolltech/Nokia liked it and > decided to import it into Qt. They did that a while ago and hence have a > pre-KDE-4.2 version of Photon in the toolkit. You *can* install the > other components of Qt4 (and you have to if you want to use KDE4) but > Qt4's Photon and KDE4's photon will not coexist. This really is not an > issue unless you want to install something that wants Qt4's phonon > specifically. I guess misc/qt4-qtdemo is one such port and so with this, > one you are out of luck. Yes, this is not exactly perfect but the > incompatibility is Trolltech/Nokia's fault if anybody's as it is them > who ship an old version of phonon. > > Regarding the problems with multimedia/phonon-xine: Are you sure you > have undone any modifications you made to the bsd.*.mk files while > chasing down the problems you had earlier? My guess would be there is > something in one of these files that prevents your > multimedia/phonon-xine from working.
Thanks. Good explanation. You have to admit, having such a conflict between two items which are so interdependent on on one another seems a bit unlikely on it's face, which his why I was so skeptical (sounded to me like someone was telling me I could have cars, and tires, but not tires on cars). Hard to argue with the facts, though. > > - Bartosz > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknJjaYACgkQz62J6PPcoOl75gCfSNc7dYNGpSLx7HVoG7NnhqIe VEwAoIibLAkOcebzs5dreYZZc/UBPPdl =J429 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information