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.

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