[kde-freebsd] FreeBSD Port: kde

[Andy Fawcett]

On Saturday 19 April 2008 21:53:57 Vincent wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 04:17:29PM +0200, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > On Friday 18 April 2008 09:27:59 Tim McCormick wrote:
> > > > I don't like this sort of usage of this list.
> > >
> > > Apologies to anyone offended.
> > >
> > > Was simply trying to help someone get KDE running on a FreeBSD system
> > > quickly, but I can see re-reading this morning that it did look a bit
> > > too much like a plug.
> >
> > As far as I'm concerned it's a perfectly valid post. Maybe that's based
> > on my impression that in (F)BSD-land there's less competition and
> > animosity between distros than in linux land. Saying "here's a pretty
> > darn good pre-packaged KDE 3.5.8 with FBSD 6.3 underneath" is good news,
> > generally.
>
> That is what I thought also, but I guess that is changing or has changed
> in the FreeBSD camp.  I recently posted a problem in this list trying to
> compile KDE4 on Dragonfly BSD, which is also a FreeBSD branch.


The difference here being, DF branched from FreeBSD in the 4.x days and we're 
at 7.x now, (and 4.x has been "retired" a while), whereas PCBSD is based on a 
currently supported FreeBSD release.

Generally, we'll help where we can, but DF is significantly different from 
FreeBSD versions this day in many respects.

Andy


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