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From: "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: upgrading to Plasma 5
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 01:30:58
Message-Id: 5705B83E.8070806@iee.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: upgrading to Plasma 5 by Jonathan Callen
1 On 07/04/16 01:45, Jonathan Callen wrote:
2 > On 04/06/2016 07:46 AM, M. J. Everitt wrote:
3 >
4 > > In the event you're not explicitly using a desktop or KDE desktop
5 > > profile, can you provide a summary of the changes that should be
6 > > made manually when switching the the kde-plasma/* ebuilds please? I
7 > > can probably handle a display manager change over a network of
8 > > systems, but making a sensible transition to Plasma5 over many
9 > > systems could be a trial if a small step is overlooked.... Thanks!
10 >
11 > > Michael/veremit.
12 >
13 >
14 >
15 > The list of things that the plasma profiles add to the system can be
16 > found in ${PORTDIR}/profiles/targets/desktop/plasma/. The
17 > make.defaults and package.use in there show which USE flags a default
18 > plasma install would need (in addition to the standard desktop profile
19 > and the flags enabled by default in the ebuilds). Note that most of
20 > the changes are either a) disabling things in some old KDE 4 stuff
21 > that hasn't been ported completely, to just have the bits still
22 > required on a mostly-ported system, and b) choosing which
23 > implementation (Qt4/Qt5) on packages that require you to choose (the
24 > profile ends up enabling USE="qt4 qt5" for most packages, this turns
25 > off one of them for some packages).
26 >
27 Thanks, I'll dig over those and see if the wiki page can be tweaked
28 slightly :)
29
30 MJE

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