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I've updated the news item based on feedback on my initial mail, |
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thanks to jstein. |
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mva, anything missing in the list of profiles here? I've grepped profiles.desc |
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for kde to get the current list. |
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Title: KDE Workspaces 4.11 and KDE profile removal |
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Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o> |
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Content-Type: text/plain |
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Posted: 2017-01-08 |
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Revision: 1 |
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News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: kde-plasma/kdebase-startkde |
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Display-If-Installed: kde-plasma/kdm |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha/13.0/desktop/kde |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/desktop/kde |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/armv4/desktop/kde |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/armv4t/desktop/kde |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/armv5te/desktop/kde |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/armv6j/desktop/kde |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/armv7a/desktop/kde |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/ia64/13.0/desktop/kde |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/ia64/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/m68k/13.0/desktop/kde |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc32/13.0/desktop/kde |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc32/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/13.0/32bit-userland/desktop/kde |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/13.0/32bit-userland/desktop/kde/systemd |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/13.0/64bit-userland/desktop/kde |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/13.0/64bit-userland/desktop/kde/systemd |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/sh/13.0/desktop/kde |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/sparc/13.0/desktop/kde |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/sparc/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde |
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Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd |
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KDE Workspaces 4.11 has reached end of life in Portage. Upstream dropped |
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support in 2015-08-19, no security bugs have been fixed since then. It is |
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therefore required for all users to upgrade to KDE Plasma 5. |
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KDM is being removed as well. Upstream recommends x11-misc/sddm instead which |
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is pulled in by plasma-meta by default. |
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OpenRC users edit /etc/conf.d/xdm and update DISPLAYMANAGER. |
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Systemd users run: systemctl reenable sddm.service |
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Part of the cleanup will also be the KDE desktop profile, which is superseded |
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by the Plasma desktop profile. Please follow the detailed upgrade guide.[1] |
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KDE Workspaces 4.11 packages will be moved to kde-sunset overlay.[2] |
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[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade |
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[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay:Kde-sunset |