The state of KDE on FreeBSD / root vulnerability...

[Hannes Hauswedell]

> Hi
> 
> I can't tell you about the schedule of KF5 for FreeBSD. The KF5 library
> components that are currenlty in the ports collection will likely see
> an update soon, as the exp-run required for such a large commit
> completed yesterday. Note that these components are just the libs and
> not the desktop and front end applications themselves.

Yeah, I am interested mostly in all the cool apps. Desktop is not so
relevant to me...


> The "relevant" apps are all in area51's plasma5 branch. Although I
> cannot say anything about kmail, the others "work" here. Which means
> the desktop itself and kate work better than their KDE4 counterparts,

That's what I expected... the obvious question: it may not be perfect,
but if it works better than the status quo for most of the apps, why not
push the updates to the regular ports tree -- especially in the context
of possibly serious security issues?

> but kdevelop segfaults every 2 minutes on my installation :D

Well right now I am stuck with kate, as well, but at least for kdevelop
5 you can submit bug reports!

> Make sure to switch to the plasma5 branch of area51 if you want/need
> kde5, as the default branch is still on KDE-4.14 and Qt-4.8.
Currently I will wait for packages...

Thanks,
Hannes