Is there a difference between kde5 and plasma5?

[Tobias C. Berner]

Hi there

According to the internet, there is no "KDE5" [1] -- the thing is now
called "Plasma Desktop". However, we found it is probably less confusing,
if we still add a metaport similar to x11/kde4 for the new stuff.

* x11/kde5: "fat meta port" -- pulls in the dependencies for a plasma
desktop [note, not whole plasma] and (optionally) applications
* x11/plasma5-plasma: "plasma metaport" -- pulls in every plasma port.


That being said, if you know what you want, you can also just install
x11/plasma5-plasma-desktop and the applications you want :), and forgo all
the meta-ports shenanigans.



mfg Tobias


[1] https://vizzzion.org/blog/2011/06/there-is-no-kde5/

On 28 January 2017 at 19:51, Jeremy <jeremy.m.cox at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> I must say thank you for your continued efforts to port the newest version
> of KDE to FreeBSD.
>
> I'm so excited because I got it working. I used the x11/kde5 metaport.
> According to the instructions, it says to use x11/plasma5-plasma. Is there
> a difference between which ports will be built between using plasma5-plasma
> or the kde5 metaport?
>
> It is working pretty well, and x11/sddm was also successfully built and is
> functioning well. I'm using kde5 with xorg server 1.18.4 and Nvidia. Thank
> you all again for your hard work!
>
> Regards
> Jeremy Cox
>
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