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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:55:47
Message-Id: 5432BB79.5050809@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5? by Michael Palimaka
1 Am 06.10.2014 um 11:57 schrieb Michael Palimaka:
2 > On 10/06/2014 05:34 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 >> Am 04.10.2014 um 19:37 schrieb Michael Palimaka:
4 >>> On 10/04/2014 11:26 PM, behrouz khosravi wrote:
5 >>>> Hello everyone.
6 >>>> I was wondering if anyone has tried KDE5?
7 >>>> Do you know when it's going to be placed in the main tree?
8 >>>>
9 >>>> thanks
10 >>> Hi,
11 >>>
12 >>> The KDE release structure has evolved[1], decoupling the release cycle
13 >>> of the Platform, Workspace, and Applications. This means that there is
14 >>> no longer a single Software Compilation in the same way there was with
15 >>> KDE 4.
16 >>>
17 >>> We (Gentoo KDE team) have not yet made a decision as to when the Plasma
18 >>> 5 Workspace will be pushed to the main tree. I've been using it on a
19 >>> daily basis for about six months, and consider the next release (5.1.0)
20 >>> to be a good candidate for the main tree.
21 >>>
22 >>> The underlying Platform (KDE Frameworks 5) upon which Plasma 5 is built
23 >>> is expected in the main tree in about a week, after the 5.3.0 release.
24 >>>
25 >>> Best regards,
26 >>> Michael
27 >>>
28 >>> [1]: https://dot.kde.org/2013/09/04/kde-release-structure-evolves
29 >>>
30 >>>
31 >>>
32 >> ok, at the moment you can't even install this mess:
33 >>
34 >> merge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy
35 >> ">=dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.3.2:5[debug=,widgets]".
36 >> !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
37 >> - dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.3.2-r1::gentoo (Missing IUSE: widgets)
38 >> (dependency required by "dev-qt/qtquick1-5.3.2" [ebuild])
39 >> (dependency required by "kde-frameworks/plasma-5.2.0::kde" [ebuild])
40 >> (dependency required by "@kde-frameworks-5.2" [argument])
41 >>
42 >> yepp, three ebuilds depending on qtwebkit with the widgets useflag -
43 >> that it doesn't even have. Oh joy. And that after 2h+ dealing with other
44 >> useflag related shenanigans.
45 >>
46 >> btw from the changelog:
47 >>
48 >> 25 Sep 2014; Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> metadata.xml:
49 >> Remove unused USE flag.
50 >>
51 >> that unused useflag wasn't 'widgets' by chance? ^^
52 >>
53 >>
54 >>
55 > Thanks for testing. It appears I missed a couple of consumers (I did
56 > check!) and it's fixed now.
57 >
58 > What other USE flag issues did you encounter?
59 >
60 >
61 >
62
63 gles2 and kms was fun. It was easy - but emerge --ask takes so much time
64 that a lot of time was wasted.