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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A pure Plasma/qt5 machine - fact or fantasy?
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 14:05:27
Message-Id: 56DD8A19.9080807@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] A pure Plasma/qt5 machine - fact or fantasy? by Andrew Lowe
1 On 07/03/2016 15:58, Andrew Lowe wrote:
2 > On 03/07/16 21:15, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >> On 07/03/2016 14:40, Andrew Lowe wrote:
4 >>> Hi all,
5 >>> I've done a, somewhat poor, piecemeal upgrade of a KDE 4 machine to
6 >>> Plasma. I'm still faced with a mix of 4/Plasma applications and it
7 >>> doesn't appear to be getting any better. Is it possible to have a pure
8 >>> qt5/Plasma install?
9 >>
10 >> Not yet, unless you wan to do without certain very useful apps that are
11 >> still KDE 4 SC. Like Okular.
12 >>>
13 >>> I think I've probably got "masks" and "enables" and "uses" all over the
14 >>> place confusing everything - or have I.
15 >>
16 >> That's normal for this stage of the game
17 >>
18 >>> Has anyone else reached "Plasma
19 >>> Nirvana"?
20 >>
21 >> No. Not even the KDE devs.
22 >>
23 >>
24 >>>
25 >>> Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
26 >>>
27 >>> Andrew
28 >>>
29 >>
30 >>
31 >
32 > Good, I can now rest easy that I haven't stuffed things up big time.
33 >
34 > Andrew
35 >
36
37
38 quoting Jonathan Callan from a rpely in a different thread earlier today:
39
40 "Some packages in KDE Applications have been ported to use the new KDE
41 Frameworks 5 libraries. Those packages are in slot :5. Other
42 packages have not yet (or had not yet) been updated, and still link
43 against kdelibs:4. Those packages are in slot :4. We are simply
44 following upstream in the versioning scheme (with regards to
45 everything being "15.12" for the December release, or "15.08" for the
46 October release).
47
48 Note that upstream split the old "KDE Software Compilation" (formerly
49 "KDE Desktop Environment") into three separate parts: KDE Frameworks,
50 Plasma, and KDE Applications."
51
52 --
53 Alan McKinnon
54 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com