Plasma 5 and KDE Workspaces in F22

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Mar 26 16:14:00 UTC 2015


Ed Greshko wrote:

> On 03/26/15 20:44, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Ed Greshko wrote:
>>
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>>> On 03/26/15 18:18, Reindl Harald wrote:
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>>>> "but the burden of maintaining two KDE desktops is one too many" was
>>>> pretty clear - since nobody maintains KDE4 for F22 you can't stick on
>>>> it
>>>>
>>> Well, if you're not given the choice then don't you think it wise to
>>> remove "KDE Plasma Workspaces" from the choices listed by "dnf group
>>> list"?
>> Why?  (It's still called Plasma)
>>
> 
> I suppose what is confusing me is the mixture of terminology.
> 
> With F22 you have packages installed like "kf5-plasma" which the info
> describes as "KDE Frameworks 5 Tier 3..." and you have "kde-runtime" which
> is described as "Core runtime for KDE 4".  So, some places I see 4 and
> some places I see 5.
> 
> Then, if I do "dnf group install KDE Plasma Workspaces" I would have
> expected one of two things to happen.  Either it would tell me that I
> already had it installed or it would have offered to install additional
> packages that weren't included when F22 was initially installed as that is
> what happens with F21.  I would not have expected a failure.
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# dnf group install "KDE Plasma Workspaces"
> Using metadata from Thu Mar 26 11:00:43 2015
> Error: installed package plasma-nm-openswan-5.2.1-2.fc22.x86_64 obsoletes
> kde-plasma-nm-openswan < 5.0.0-1 provided by
> kde-plasma-nm-openswan-0.9.3.5-7.fc22.x86_64. installed package
> plasma-nm-vpnc-5.2.1-2.fc22.x86_64 obsoletes kde-plasma-nm-vpnc < 5.0.0-1
> provided by kde-plasma-nm-vpnc-0.9.3.5-7.fc22.x86_64. installed package
> plasma-nm-l2tp-5.2.1-2.fc22.x86_64 obsoletes kde-plasma-nm-l2tp < 5.0.0-1
> provided by kde-plasma-nm-l2tp-0.9.3.5-7.fc22.x86_64. installed package
> plasma-nm-openvpn-5.2.1-2.fc22.x86_64 obsoletes kde-plasma-nm-openvpn <
> 5.0.0-1 provided by kde-plasma-nm-openvpn-0.9.3.5-7.fc22.x86_64. installed
> package kf5-baloo-file-5.6.1-2.fc22.x86_64 obsoletes baloo-file < 5.0.1-2
> provided by baloo-file-4.14.3-1.fc22.x86_64. installed package
> plasma-nm-pptp-5.2.1-2.fc22.x86_64 obsoletes kde-plasma-nm-pptp < 5.0.0-1
> provided by kde-plasma-nm-pptp-0.9.3.5-7.fc22.x86_64. installed package
> plasma-nm-openconnect-5.2.1-2.fc22.x86_64 obsoletes
> kde-plasma-nm-openconnect < 5.0.0-1 provided by
> kde-plasma-nm-openconnect-0.9.3.5-7.fc22.x86_64. installed package
> plasma-nm-5.2.1-2.fc22.x86_64 obsoletes kde-plasma-nm < 5.0.0-1 provided
> by kde-plasma-nm-0.9.3.5-7.fc22.x86_64. installed package
> plasma-desktop-doc-5.2.1-6.fc22.x86_64 obsoletes kde-runtime-docs <
> 1:14.12.3-2 provided by kde-runtime-docs-14.12.3-2.fc22.noarch

Looks like some dnf bug, I'll see about updating comps to now refer to any 
renamed packages in the meantime.

-- rex



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