Re: Qt4 removal plan

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost> writes:

> On 26/10/19 11:02 am, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>>> There are various KDE-related apps that I sometimes find useful, e.g.
>>> kdiff3 (which I see is what Mercurial recommends for a graphical merge
>>> tool). Generally, these have long been ported to qt5+kf5, pkgsrc just
>>> doesn't have the more recent versions. I was thinking of updating these
>>> myself, but hadn't got around to it.
>>>
>>> As Maya suggested, I don't think there's any urgency to remove things
>>> immediately. The question on some people's minds I imagine will be: "If
>>> you're deleting KDE4, where's KDE5?"
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> Please help to upgrade these packages, especially the ones you care about.
>
> There are a bunch of KDE5 versions of packages on wip (and a bunch more
> that I'd be happy to do).  The reason I haven't replaced things in
> pkgsrc proper with the KDE5 versions is that at this point we don't have
> a fully working KDE5 environment (as various components have
> dependencies on qt5-qtwebengine or libinput or libudev or other issues)
> so I didn't want to break things for anyone who was using KDE4 as an
> integrated environment.  Now I don't know if there is anyone still doing
> that (I'm not) so maybe we should just go ahead an update what we can.

It seems likely people are using kde4, but the canonical place to ask is
pkgsrc-users@.

It seems like making kde5 work first is in order before updating
packages from kde4 to kde5, unless I'm missing something.