KDE3 --> KDE4

[Mel Flynn]

On Thursday 06 August 2009 19:26:20 Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On August 6, 2009 9:29:30 PM -0500 Mel Flynn
>
> <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions at mailing.thruhere.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 August 2009 15:21:14 Paul Schmehl wrote:
> >> Can someone who has already done this upgrade suggest the best way to go
> >> about it?  Do I need to completely uninstall kde3 first?  Is there an
> >> upgrade path that's not fraught with gotchas?
> >
> > Wait a week I'd say. KDE 4.3.0 has hit the ports tree rather fast to be
> > in
> > time for the ports freeze and a lot of stuff is being ironed out. In
> > fact,
> > probably the best time is after the ports freeze is over. But I expect
> > the big
> > gotchas to be gone in a few days.
> > --
>
> Thanks, Mel.  I'll wait.  Will there be instructions in
> /usr/ports/UPDATING after the freeze?  (There's nothing in there now about
> upgrading.)

The 20090804 entries deal with KDE4 (indirectly). Some people have experience 
problems having KDE3 (in particular qt33) around, but these are build 
problems. If one makes packages on a clean machine, then you shouldn't be 
affected and a fix to address that has already been committed.
-- 
Mel