Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:11:45 +0200 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: Adriaan de Groot <adridg@freebsd.org> Cc: kde-freebsd@kde.org, Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org>, kde@freebsd.org, Ports FreeBSD <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Port-Manager <portmgr@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Conflicts due to renamed KDE4 ports Message-ID: <20180417111138.7ef63028@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <2582582.nTViGzGfaW@beastie.bionicmutton.org> References: <a9ce1576-a254-4e79-3e50-b90d49827a1e@freebsd.org> <b3297fd4-05a4-f824-4fdd-21227531fc57@freebsd.org> <20180416211329.52e4c0dc@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <2582582.nTViGzGfaW@beastie.bionicmutton.org>
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:42:48 +0200 Adriaan de Groot <adridg@freebsd.org> wrote: > [where did this discussion take place, earlier? this is the first I've seen it] > > So, there are roughly two migration paths: supposing someone has x11/kde4 > installed, which has dependencies on many applications and a Plasma 4 desktop, > kde@ wants (wanted) to make it possible to migrate to a still-KDE4 desktop, > while renaming everything to have a -kde4 suffix. The other path is to migrate > to the latest-and-greatest-from-KDE .. we don't have a metaport for that, and > if we do get one it probably won't be called x11/kde5. > > For single applications, the migration looks similar: you had, around january > 2018, port <foo>. That's the KDE4 version. Now there is port <foo>-kde4, if > you want to stick to KDE4 software (which is no longer released upstream, and > is based on an EOL toolkit, but some people feel quite strongly about this). > Ports <foo> are returning, without a suffix, to mean "the latest-and-greatest- > version-of-<foo>". This is consistent with other ports which have a <foo>, > sometimes a <foo>-devel for upcoming things, and a <foo>-<version> for older > versions if you have specific dependencies on old versions. > > Historically, things were a mess with naming with the KDE ports. We think > we've got a good scheme now: <foo>-kde4 (and in the far future, <foo>-kf5) for > versions of the software based on an older stack, and <foo> for the current > one. But the pain of getting from the mess to something better organized has > to happen at some point. What happens when you run pkg upgrade on a 6 months old installation of KDE4?
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