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 1804E158083 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2024 19:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06FB4E2AB3; Sat, 31 Aug 2024 19:33:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (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 BB619E2A9F for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2024 19:33:38 +0000 (UTC) From: Sam James To: Andreas Sturmlechner Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, pr@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News Item v2: KDE Plasma 6.1.4 and Gear 24.05.2 Upgrade In-Reply-To: <5974000.MhkbZ0Pkbq@tuxbrain> (Andreas Sturmlechner's message of "Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:56:14 +0200") Organization: Gentoo References: <5974000.MhkbZ0Pkbq@tuxbrain> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 20:33:32 +0100 Message-ID: <87bk18lc6r.fsf@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="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 89d98667-047d-45c2-b0e5-5143b37015ce X-Archives-Hash: e46634373a270ff4747743c8f144eb15 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Andreas Sturmlechner writes: > 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: > > The 32-bit ~arm/arm keyword was inconsistent across KDE Plasma, KDE > Frameworks, and KDE Gear, and has been dropped. > > The situation for x86 was similar to arm and test failures often blocked > stabilization. Stable x86 has been dropped, ~x86 was dropped for KDE PIM, > dev-util/kdevelop and any other dev-qt/qtwebengine:6 reverse dependencies. > > > 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 > - Depclean 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]. "Users are recommended to run the following command (pretend-only) to identify packages in @world which have been removed, to help reduce conflicts: emerge -pev @world -backtrack=0 Then for any "no ebuild available" messages, either resolve it by making the needed changes, or emerge --deselect them. Then proceed to the world upgrade below. > > Once the packages become available on your arch, it should be as simple as > update @world: > > emerge -aquUD @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 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iOUEARYKAI0WIQQlpruI3Zt2TGtVQcJzhAn1IN+RkAUCZtNwDV8UgAAAAAAuAChp c3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVucGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0MjVB NkJCODhERDlCNzY0QzZCNTU0MUMyNzM4NDA5RjUyMERGOTE5MA8cc2FtQGdlbnRv by5vcmcACgkQc4QJ9SDfkZCd5wEApFp+jq7fL7IeOSKqPTI7Up0OKT3RpPdmXYLw jXZufiQBAKw/lrj4WRtOEwszEETegAY2mlUO3QMKK5TmtY0R3PsN =ab4A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--