Plasma 5 RC

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday, July 08, 2014 18:45:41 John Layt wrote:
> On 7 July 2014 10:16, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 10:36:00AM +0100, John Layt wrote:
> >> Co-installabilty of Plasma 4 and Plasma 5 with minimal work required
> >> by the distros is a must if we want to avoid the mess of KDE4.
> >> Already openSUSE has announced that you can't have both installed at
> >> once, which will force people to choose one or other, when what we
> >> really want is for them to be able to try Plasma 5 out while still
> >> being able to switch back to 4 if there are things that break their
> >> workflow.
> > 
> > They won't be co-installable just as konsole won't be co-installable
> > with its kdelibs4 version, it's a new version of the same programme.
> > But the parts that are used by applications, libraries and runtime
> > parts need to be co-installable so kdelibs4 and kf5 applications can
> > be installed on the same system.
> 
> Hmmm, well that's not quite what I was expecting, I was hoping to be
> able to install them in parallel and test it out while keeping my old
> desktop safe, like I can install and try Gnome or Unity or XFCE.  I
> don't expect to have parallel installs of apps though, the latest
> version should just run under any desktop.  No Plasma 5 for me then
> until a couple more releases and it's stabilised :-\

Note that they can be perfectly installed into different prefixes, it's just 
that some distros refuse to ship it as that. I don't really see the problem, 
but then I'm not a distro or packager person for good reasons (this may be one 
of them).

Cheers,
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sebas

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