On 07/07/2014 07:16 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 10:36:00AM +0100, John Layt wrote: >> Co-installabilty of Plasma 4 and Plasma 5 with minimal work required >> by the distros is a must if we want to avoid the mess of KDE4. >> Already openSUSE has announced that you can't have both installed at >> once, which will force people to choose one or other, when what we >> really want is for them to be able to try Plasma 5 out while still >> being able to switch back to 4 if there are things that break their >> workflow. > > They won't be co-installable just as konsole won't be co-installable > with its kdelibs4 version, it's a new version of the same programme. > But the parts that are used by applications, libraries and runtime > parts need to be co-installable so kdelibs4 and kf5 applications can > be installed on the same system.
There's still more work to do in this area. For example, a number of applications depend on libkworkspace but there's a collision there between kde-workspace and plasma-workspace. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel