Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: KDE Workspaces 4.11 and KDE profile removal

[Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>]

I've updated the news item based on feedback on my initial mail,
thanks to jstein.

mva, anything missing in the list of profiles here? I've grepped profiles.desc
for kde to get the current list.

Title: KDE Workspaces 4.11 and KDE profile removal
Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>
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Posted: 2017-01-08
Revision: 1
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KDE Workspaces 4.11 has reached end of life in Portage. Upstream dropped
support in 2015-08-19, no security bugs have been fixed since then. It is
therefore required for all users to upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.

KDM is being removed as well. Upstream recommends x11-misc/sddm instead which
is pulled in by plasma-meta by default.
OpenRC users edit /etc/conf.d/xdm and update DISPLAYMANAGER.
Systemd users run: systemctl reenable sddm.service

Part of the cleanup will also be the KDE desktop profile, which is superseded
by the Plasma desktop profile. Please follow the detailed upgrade guide.[1]

KDE Workspaces 4.11 packages will be moved to kde-sunset overlay.[2]

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade
[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay:Kde-sunset