Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 5 hangs around

[Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>]

241209 Eli Schwartz wrote:
> your output below for "emerge -pv kio" is showing that installing
> kio:6 fails due to needing an updated kwidgetsaddons-6.7,
> which cannot be upgraded on its own as it needs to be updated in lockstep
> with kxmlgui knewstuff ktexteditor kiconthemes frameworkintegration kwallet
> kcmutils and various other packages.

Yes, that's my experience w KDE + Qt in the past.
I solved the problem as before by logging into Fluxbox,
removing KDE Apps Plasma Frameworks via @-files
& re-installing ditto in reverse order ; everything worked.

> Since you could not install kio:6, emerge tried to install kio:5 instead.
> Naturally, kio:5 depends on various KDE 5 packages.

That's lunatic ! -- very few, if any, users would want to do that.

Portage lacks intelligence & it shows an obtuse face to users.
It's been there largely unchanged since I started using Gentoo in 2003.
It's high time some effort was put into a serious update.
 
> Lots of software still exists which was written during the KDE 5 days
> and doesn't have active upstream maintainers.  Those tend to take a while
> to update, and not all will end up updating at all -- some packages
> may end up dropped for their lack of maintenance, eventually.

Yes indeed : I dropped my favorite file-manager Krusader,
which won't work with KDE 6 ; perhaps it wb brought upto-date one day.

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