Conflicts due to renamed KDE4 ports

[Grzegorz Junka]

On 14/04/2018 12:18, Stefan Esser wrote:
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> This is another case (after the implementation of FLAVOR support that does
> not seem well-designed and causes lots of effort and inefficiencies in port
> management tools like portmaster), which makes me consider giving up my
> efforts to keep portmaster alive.
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> STefan

This caused some headache on my system too even though I use poudriere 
to build packages and I don't use the whole kde suite, just some 
applications. I had to manually uninstall all old kde ports and 
re-install them again adding the kde4 suffix. Are you saying I will need 
to do that again when I want to switch to kde5?

I haven't seen any consultation being posted on this forum if/when/how 
the introduction of kde5 should be handled. I imagine it's not the first 
time such a massive upgrade of version has had happened in FreeBSD 
ports. Is it how it's usually handled?

Also, wouldn't in this case converting kde to flavours, i.e. 
kde-base at kde4 and kde-base at kde5 be a better approach?

GrzegorzJ