Conflicts due to renamed KDE4 ports

Tijl Coosemans tijl at FreeBSD.org
Mon Apr 16 10:38:11 UTC 2018


On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 14:18:22 +0200 Stefan Esser <se at freebsd.org> wrote:
> The way the new KDE5/KF5 ports have been introduced a few weeks back has
> caused me quite some effort (more than 100 hours of work), and now there
> have been further changes to implement KDE5 support (which I generally
> appreciate), which cause further complications and seem not to be well
> thought out.
> 
> These problems affect at least all portmaster users, but I guess portupgrade
> is affected as well and a "pkg upgrade" dry-run indicates, that it will also
> cause breakage to binary upgrades of KDE4 installations.

Removing entries from MOVED after only a few weeks is a bad idea, but
it's not something you have to worry about.  As long as portmaster
behaves more or less the same as pkg you're good.


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