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From: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-pr@l.g.o, kde@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] News item: KDE Workspaces 4.11 and KDE profile removal
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2017 17:01:37
Message-Id: 1634267.BcBY24h9rh@tux200s
1 Hi,
2
3 KDE team intends to remove unsupported KDE Workspaces 4.11 from tree, so
4 please review the news item below.
5
6 Best regards,
7 Andreas
8
9
10 Title: KDE Workspaces 4.11 and KDE profile removal
11 Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o>
12 Content-Type: text/plain
13 Posted: 2017-01-08
14 Revision: 1
15 News-Item-Format: 1.0
16 Display-If-Installed: kde-plasma/kdebase-startkde
17 Display-If-Installed: kde-plasma/kdm
18 Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde
19 Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
20 Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/desktop/kde
21 Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
22 Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde
23 Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd
24
25 KDE Workspaces 4.11 has reached end of life in Portage. It was unsupported by
26 upstream since 19th August 2015, meaning no security bugs have been fixed since
27 then. It is therefore required for all users to upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.
28
29 If you normally use KDM to launch a session, this is being removed as well.
30 Upstream recommends x11-misc/sddm instead which is pulled in by plasma-meta by
31 default. OpenRC users should edit /etc/conf.d/xdm and update DISPLAYMANAGER.
32 Systemd users should run: systemctl reenable sddm.service
33
34 Part of the cleanup will also be the KDE desktop subprofile, which is
35 superseded by the Plasma desktop profile. A detailed upgrade guide is
36 available[1] and recommended for its conflict removal advice.
37
38 KDE Workspaces 4.11 packages will be moved to kde-sunset overlay.[2]
39
40 [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade
41 [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay:Kde-sunset

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