KDE and 5-release [Was: Re: xterm (+Konsole) and su on BETA4 with Xorg (from today)]

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 09:31:23PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> Am Samstag, 16. Oktober 2004 21:03 schrieb Kris Kennaway:
> > On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 06:56:35PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, 15. Oktober 2004 22:37 schrieb Kris Kennaway:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 03:38:07AM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > I think this was a bug in kdm that was recently fixed - can you please
> > > > verify that you have completely up-to-date ports?
> > >
> > > Sorry, it took a while to recompile kdebase3.
> > > First, more importatnt, this bug was fiexd on 9th of October:
> > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=609441+0+archive/2004/freebs
> > >d-current/20040919.freebsd-current
> > >
> > > As far as I can tell also the xterm (konsole) bug has been fixed since I
> > > _can_ compile ports with simple su (without login simulated), although I
> > > can't remember where and when this was fixed.
> >
> > I think the kdm bug caused the environment pollution that caused your
> > konsole problems too.
> 
> I tought I read some discussion about that but actualy wasn't really sure. But 
> looks like :)
> 
> Another suggestion (which I think is out of discussion, but): I'd strongly 
> recommend releasing 5.3 with kde 3.3.1!
> I'm using (at least on my multihead machine) KDE for daily work and 3.3.0 has 
> really lots of ugly bugs. Almost every (for me) really annoying bug was fixed 
> in 3.3.1 accoreding to the changelog 
> (http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog3_3to3_3_1.php)
> 
> Since fruitsalad.org is doing pkg-plist runs excesively I think the port will 
> be commited soon.
> 
> Is it possible to do another port freeze when -RC1 is out?
> Additional reasons would be apache2, libtiff (which I can't find a 
> corresponding port), jdk14, kmplayer and lost of others.
> 
> Perhaps you were often asked about a ports release branch, but I think today 
> there are so many ports and so many security dependencies, isn't it worth 
> another thought?

KDE 3.3.1 will not be shipped in 5.3-RELEASE.  Sorry, it's just too
far along in the release process.

Kris
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