On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 05:17:26PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2019/10/25 17:27, Rafael Sadowski wrote: > > On Thu Oct 24, 2019 at 09:02:44AM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I'd like to know if KDE4 packages are supposed to coexists with KF5 > > > packages > > > (OpenBSD amd64 6.6). > > > > > > In particular, I'd like to use both gwenview (KF5) and Juk (KDE4), but it > > > seems that baloo-4.14.3p7 conflicts with kf5-icons-baloo-5.54.0, and > > > kf5-icons-baloo-5.54.0 conflicts with baloo-4.14.3p7 (see below). > > > > > > Is this a known limitation? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > Can't install kf5-icons-baloo-5.54.0 because of conflicts (baloo-4.14.3p7) > > > Can't install gwenview-18.12.0p1: can't resolve kf5-icons-baloo-5.54.0 > > > > This is correct, not all KDE4 and KF5 packages can coexists. The biggest > > challenge here is the fight between baloo-4 and kf5-baloo. > > > > I GAVE UP to send new/replacement KDE5 ports to ports@. It doesn't get > > any attention on the list and it's an impossible mission to get an OK > > for it! > > > > Feel free to take the port from: > > > > https://github.com/sizeofvoid/openbsd-kde-wip > > > > If you need more ports, don't be shy and just ask. I'd be glad to get > > feedback on: > > > > https://github.com/sizeofvoid/openbsd-kde-wip/tree/master/x11/kde-applications/juk > > > > RS > > > > What do you think about just killing all the kde4 ports. This attempt at > coexistence and a seemingly never-ending trickle of separate ports to > handle in a piecemeal changeover is a nightmare to review and can't be > good for you either. > > Give me a tarball with all the new things that can be unpacked in > /usr/ports and a diff to disable the kde4 things (don't worry about > cvs rm's, just unhook from category Makefiles) and I'll look at it in > bulk. (I need it to be easy to test it though, I won't try to assemble > a tree by merging things from a git repo etc :) > > Compared with GNOME, even with more people working on it, the port > maintainers don't even try to have versions coexisting, it is just too > difficult, and there are fewer people working on kde. Maybe some of the > kf5 things are worse than the kde4 things but we just don't have the > resources to mix and match and try to keep everything working.
And while you're at it, please kill kde3 too.
