From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D3C7D1581FB for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2024 21:08:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30829E2A08; Thu, 29 Aug 2024 21:08:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DB2A3E2A01 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2024 21:08:45 +0000 (UTC) From: Andreas Sturmlechner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News Item: KDE Plasma 6.1.4 and Gear 24.05.2 Upgrade Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 23:08:36 +0200 Message-ID: <3584006.iIbC2pHGDl@tuxbrain> In-Reply-To: <383bb994-da96-d2a6-3c8a-c3ffaec16258@gentoo.org> References: <5933809.lOV4Wx5bFT@tuxbook> <875y8si1k0.fsf@gentoo.org> <383bb994-da96-d2a6-3c8a-c3ffaec16258@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart9329378.CDJkKcVGEf"; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 73ca8b47-9167-4115-903d-bc1be4ec219f X-Archives-Hash: 5b9e91ce46514df279e7d77336ca82af --nextPart9329378.CDJkKcVGEf Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; protected-headers="v1" From: Andreas Sturmlechner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 23:08:36 +0200 Message-ID: <3584006.iIbC2pHGDl@tuxbrain> In-Reply-To: <383bb994-da96-d2a6-3c8a-c3ffaec16258@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Title: KDE Plasma 6.1.4 and Gear 24.05.2 Upgrade Author: Andreas Sturmlechner Posted: 2024-08-31 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: kde-plasma/plasma-workspace:5 Reasons ======= KDE Plasma 5 has reached end of life and is no longer supported by Gentoo. Qt5 upstream OSS support ended on 2020-12-08, and LTS releases - even with considerable effort by KDE community's backports on top - only go so far. It is therefore required for all users to upgrade to KDE Plasma 6[1]. At the same time, KDE Gear 24.05.2 is provided with most applications ported over to KDE Frameworks 6. As long as KF5-based applications are being shipped with the KDE Gear bundle, and other non-KDE Qt5-based applications still common in ::gentoo repository, it is advised *not* to disable USE="qt5". Changes ======= Not many - much like Qt6, this is mostly an evolution of the existing codebase, no disruptive feat. Plasma Wayland support has come a long way and therefore KDE developers have decided to make it the default login session for Plasma 6, even if some known papercuts[2] remain. For users affected too much by those, switching to the still existing X11 session is as easy as selecting it in the display manager of choice. Disabling USE="wayland" is *not* changing this default, it will yield no dependency savings, and we advise against doing so. It does not affect users' X11 sessions. In Gentoo: - arm 32-bit support is discontinued - x86 will not see stabilisation of Plasma 6 and KF6-based packages User Action Required ==================== For users of a plasma profile[3], no specific upgrade steps are necessary, although some precautionary measures are advised before and during upgrade: - Switch to a standard (Breeze or Oxygen) theme - Unmerge kde-misc/latte-dock, it is unfit for Plasma 6 (and masked already) - Cleanup sets and @world from any SLOT or version pinning of KDE packages - If possible, perform the upgrade not inside a running Plasma session Necessary USE flag changes were already made in plasma profile, therefore only users of other profiles should set USE="kf6compat qt6" globally[4]. Once the packages become available on your arch, it should be as simple as update @world: emerge -aquvUD @world [1] https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/ [2] https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Known_Significant_Issues [3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE#Profile [4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.use --nextPart9329378.CDJkKcVGEf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. 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