[arch-announce] KDE SC 4.6 to [extra]

[Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Andrea Scarpino]

Andrea Scarpino wrote:

KDE announced the availability of its Software Compilation 4.6. You will find
all upstream changes and new features on their website:
http://kde.org/announcements/4.6/. As usual we provide the latest packages for
Arch.

This release offers UPower, UDev and UDisks support that can be used instead of
the deprecated HAL. For that, the hal package is no more a requirement of
kdebase-workspace and can be removed from your system.

KDE PIM 4.6 is yet not available (will be released with the next minor release),
so we will continue with the 4.4 series.

Also, with the last Phonon update, the DEVs declared the Xine backend no longer
maintained and it needs PulseAudio to work; you really should think to switch to
the GStreamer or the VLC backend.

In case of any error, try using a new user account or (re)moving KDE's
configuration which can be found at ~/.kde4 /tmp/kde- /var/tmp/kdecache-.
Akonadi saves its data at ~/.config/akonadi and ~/.local/share/akonadi.

The removed packages are: kdegames-ksame, kdesdk-kbugbuster, kdeutils-okteta The
new packages are: kdeaccessibility-kaccessible, kdegames-klickety, kdesdk-
okteta, kdeutils-filelight, kdeplasma-addons-concontainments, kdeplasma-addons-
runners-events

URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/kde-sc-46-to-extra/