Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-18 Thread Georg Reilinger
...@yahoo.de CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Gesendet: 5:24 Freitag, 18.Januar 2013 Betreff: Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 + (GMT), Georg Reilinger wrote: As far as I know, FreeBSD has

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 + (GMT) Georg Reilinger wrote: As a consequence, I can see myself do two possible things, to have a system running with KDE 3.5 once again: 1. Go back to an older release of FreeBSD and install KDE 3.5 from the that's pointless 2. To be honest, I

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-18 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 18 January 2013 16:58:11 RW wrote: You can carry on using 3.5 on any current release. The problem is when it's eventually removed from ports, updating other ports may result in dependency problems. I'm already starting to experience some problems which I assume are due to

FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Georg Reilinger
Hi everybody, My issue is the following: As far as I know, FreeBSD has completely dropped support for KDE 3.5. Whether it's the ports, or the pkg_add precompiled binaries. Am I right in assuming this? I am currently running a live version of FreeBSD 8.2 with KDE 4.8. The thing here is,

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Some decisions from upstream are a PITA. I'm from Linux, it's more up-to-date than FreeBSD. On Linux I switched from KDE 3 to GNOME 2, when KDE 4 was introduced and from GNOME 2 to Xfce, when GNOME 3 was introduced. There are forks of GNOME 2, but I guess there's no fork of KDE 3. Some

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Georg Reilinger
Von: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com An: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Gesendet: 2:37 Freitag, 18.Januar 2013 Betreff: Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD -- Some decisions from

Re: [Bulk] FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 + (GMT) Georg Reilinger georgreilin...@yahoo.de wrote: Hi everybody, My issue is the following: As far as I know, FreeBSD has completely dropped support for KDE 3.5. Whether it's the ports, or the pkg_add precompiled binaries. Am I right in

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:06:15 +0100, Georg Reilinger georgreilin...@yahoo.de wrote: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/ Oops, I've forgotten that there is that fork. However, I suspect that KDE and GNOME forks will suffer from Qt and GTK dependencies, resp. the manpower (coders and user base,

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 + (GMT), Georg Reilinger wrote: As far as I know, FreeBSD has completely dropped support for KDE 3.5. As for other desktop environments, yes. Whether it's the ports, or the pkg_add precompiled binaries. Am I right in assuming this? I think KDE 3 is still