[arch-general] KDE 4.7 hits [testing]

[Divan Santana]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, 12:05:39 SAST, Marc Deop <damnshock at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 28 July 2011 01:26:01 Andrea Scarpino wrote:
> > Hi arKers,
> > KDE 4.7 has been released[1] and our packages are ready in [testing].
> > 
> > As you already know KDE is (slowly) moving to GIT. With this
> > transition some KDE module has been splitted into subprojects, and the
> > remaining modules should be splitted before KDE 4.8.
> > The result of this is that some package (e.g. kdegraphics-libs) is now
> > splitted in several packages and each new package conflicts with the
> > old kdegraphics-libs, so you have to remove it when pacman asks for
> > its removal during the update.
> > 
> > Here some info about the splitted modules:
> > - KDE Workspace: wallpapers are now in a separate package named
> > kde-wallpapers, this reduced the kdebase-workspace package download
> > size by 70%.
> > - KDE Graphics: kdegraphics-libs is now splitted in
> > kdegraphics-ksaneplugin, kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer,
> > kdegraphics-svgpart, kdegraphics-thumbnailers, libkdcraw, libkexiv2,
> > libkipi, libksane. Our official packages which depends on
> > kdegraphics-libs have been updated to depend on the new libraries; the
> > upgrade should work without any issue, otherwise please report it to
> > our bug tracker.
> > - KDE Edu: kdeedu-libkdeedu and kdeedu-data have been dropped and
> > libkdeedu will replace them.
> > - KDE Bindings: every subproject has been splitted in two parts: one
> > for the qt bindings and one for the KDE bindings. The old packages
> > have been remove and the new one are: kdebindings-kimono,
> > kdebindings-kross-java, kdebindings-kross-python,
> > kdebindings-korundum, kdebindings-perlkde, kdebindings-perlqt,
> > kdebindings-qtruby, kdebindings-qyoto, kdebindings-smokegen,
> > kdebindings-smokekde, kdebindings-smokeqt.
> > - KDE Accessibility: kdeaccessibility-colorschemes and
> > kdeaccessibility-iconthemes are dropped and replaced.
> > 
> > Have a nice update!
> > 
> > [1] http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hi Andrea,
>

 
> I just wanted to thank you for the work you do with the KDE packages in
> Archlinux :)
> Thanks again for the great work!

Hugely +1! Very much appreciated. Thanks.


> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marc Deop i Argemí