[kde-freebsd] upgrading from 4.2.4 to 4.3-rc2: some feedback

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On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:12:22 +0000, Alberto Villa wrote
> the not so nice part is kdeplasma-addons being dependent on kdeedu i 
> think...

I dislike this too, but dependency to marble unconditionally hardcoded into
sources. :(

> anyway, i've been using kde 4.3-rc2 for a day so far, and it's 
> working nicely. i've not upgraded 
> kde(games|pim|utils|admin|sdk|webdev|network|graphics|multimedia)
>  yet, but i can't see any new problem. performance is good, far 
> better than
> 4.2 (kdeinit sometimes goes up to 60%, but i've not hacked the 
> dirwatch polltimeout yet, it could be that), sans is antialiased (i 
> don't care, but someone was, time ago), and 3d effects aren't 
> crashing the same xorg they used to in kde 4.2. unfortunately, 
> powerdevil still doesn't find its profiles, and i'm not able to 
> install fonts yet (yes, i started with a clean configuration) also,
>  i don't have audio working: there's no available backend in kde 
> settings (qt4-phonon-gst was automatically installed). i'm now going 
> to reinstall qt4-phonon-gst, and then i'll try with phonon-xine if 
> that is not working. by the way, can someone tell me the difference 
> between choosing one of them or installing both?

Audio works wine with pulseaudio. And yes, with qt4-phonon-gst kde' control
applet doesn't exist, but is not depends. 
Anyway, you can install phonon-xine and switch to it.

> On 7/16/09, Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> rebuilding math/facile fixed it. i think its portrevision should be
> >> bumped because of a lang/ocaml update: should i file a pr?
> >
> > I am not convinced the two are related, unless we get more feedback on this
> > one.
> 
> i don't know, i read somewhere that such a problem can be fault of a
> non-up to date ocaml module, and rebuilding it worked

Ocaml libs is a problem. With any main ocaml update all its libs should be
recompiled. 

> i'm leaving tomorrow, so i won't be able to make other tests for some
> days, but let me know if i can help in any way, and i'll try to when
> i'll be back


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