On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 13:30:06 GMT Nils Freydank wrote: > Am Dienstag, 6. März 2018, 12:45:52 CET schrieb Peter Humphrey: > > Does anyone know the update plan for KDE? I'd like to add my gmail > > account to KMail, but I can't because of this bug: > > > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390763 > > As this is part of KDE applications it's scheduled for "Thursday, April > 19, 2018: KDE Applications 18.04 Release", see > > https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Applications/ > 18.04_Release_Schedule#Thursday. > 2C_April_19.2C_2018:_KDE_Applications_18.04_Release > > You can find all schedules at https://community.kde.org/Schedules.
Ah! Thank you Nils. I assume the Gentoo devs will roll it out to us users shorty after the 19th. > > To get the fix I need kde-apps/libkgapi-17.12.2, but it's keyworded at > > the moment. It looks as though I'd have to upgrade the whole of qt to > > ~amd64 to get it today, and maybe much more than that, but that would > > be a whole lot of work and result in a messy system. > > While it's not recommended nor officially supported I know of many people > doing this. Especially mixing ~amd64 desktop packages with a stable base > system shouldn't cause much trouble. As it's such a long time from now, perhaps I'll try ~amd64 for as few packages as I can get away with. I might finish up with a gargantuan @desktop set. > I personally run a whole ~amd64 system and just stabilised some toolchain > packages (glibc). However, I have no problem if something breaks, as this > usually happens at compile time.. I have run a fully ~amd64 system before now, but then I opted for the simplicity of the stable system. -- Regards, Peter.
