Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 5 hangs around

[Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org>]

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On 12/9/24 3:05 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
> Can anyone explain why, when I go to install KDE-6 pkgs,
> Portage tells me that I have to install KDE-5 pkgs as well ?
> -- I removed all of KDE-5 back in October :
> 
>   root:548 ~> emerge -pv kwayland-integration
>   These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>   [ebuild  NS    ] kde-plasma/kwayland-5.116.0:5/5.116::gentoo [6.2.4:6::gentoo] USE="-debug -doc% -test" 0 KiB
>   [ebuild  NS    ] kde-frameworks/kwindowsystem-5.116.0:5/5.116::gentoo [6.6.0:6/6.6::gentoo] USE="X -debug -doc -test wayland" 0 KiB
>   [ebuild  N     ] kde-plasma/kwayland-integration-6.2.4:5::gentoo  USE="-debug" 26 KiB



In general, you can use the -t option to emerge, which tells you exactly
which dependencies are required for what.

In this case it's no great mystery:

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwayland-integration

> This remains Qt 5 only as its features have been moved into
> KWindowSystem in KF6, but this is still necessary for compatibility
> with Qt 5 apps.

Seems like a good enough reason to me -- why did you want to install it?
It appears that it is not, in fact, a "KDE-6 pkg" after all. :)



> Why indeed is KDE-5 still supported anywhere in Gentoo ?


Because not everything has been ported to KDE 6 just because plasma has
been?



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Eli Schwartz

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