[kde-freebsd] KDE 4.12 and WITH_NEW_XORG=no

[Max Brazhnikov]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:21:39 -0200 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> Max Brazhnikov <makc at freebsd.org> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:11:32 -0200 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> >> As we're finally close to getting the 4.12.1 ports into a reasonable
> >> stable where everything builds, I'd like to start discussing merging
> >> area51 back into ports -- we've already skipped the whole 4.11 release
> >> cycle.
> >>
> >> As I see it, the biggest question is what to do with WITH_NEW_XORG=no:
> >> kde4-workspace will not build with the ancient version of Mesa that gets
> >> build when WITH_NEW_XORG is disabled. And FreeBSD's pkg building cluster
> >> does not enable this variable on its 8- and 9- builds, which mean we
> >> wouldn't get part of the KDE packages built for those releases at all.
> >
> > I don't see a problem here, we simply mark kde4-workspace as IGNORE.
> > It's not a big package loss: only 25 ports depends on kde-workpace, half of
> > them are plasmoinds, window decoration and style plugins. There is almost no
> > software that can be used outside KDE desktop.
> 
> That's true, but kde4-workspace is kind of "the KDE desktop" itself --
> people on 8- and 9- (as well as 10.0-RELEASE) would be unable to simply
> call "pkg install kde4" and get a working KDE desktop.

Look at the bright side: hordes of angry users start bombarding xorg
maintainers to enable WITH_NEW_XORG!