Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of KDE

Timestamp:

Mar 5, 2013, 12:12:40 AM (12 years ago)

Author:

IanWadham

Comment:

Added to and edited the 'Installing KDE with MacPorts' section.

KDE

@@ -16 +16 @@
 sudo port install kdelibs4
 }}}
-The dependencies are handled by MacPorts and should be installed automatically. Please note that several large packages are required by KDE, so that the installation may take a long time. 
+The dependencies are handled by MacPorts and should be installed automatically. Please note that several large packages are required by KDE, so that the installation or re-installation may take a few hours at first, but less time for subsequent KDE applications. It may be helpful to break the work into stages: first qt4-mac, then kdelibs4 and kde4-runtime and finally the KDE applications you require.
 
-The ports contained in MacPorts essentially match the packages provided on [http://download.kde.org/extra/mirrors.html KDE mirrors]. Several ports end however with a "4", or start with "kde4-" in order to differentiate the ports from the ones of the older KDE version 3. A list of the available ports is provided [wiki:KDE#Listofports below]. It is also possible to get a full list by issuing the command
+The ports contained in MacPorts essentially match the packages provided on [http://download.kde.org/extra/mirrors.html KDE mirrors]. Several ports end however with a "4", or start with "kde4-" in order to differentiate the ports from the ones of the older KDE version 3. KDE 3 became obsolescent in 2008 and is no longer supported, so KDE 3 ports should be avoided as far as possible.
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+A list of the available ports is provided [wiki:KDE#Listofports below]. It is also possible to get a full list by issuing one of the commands
 {{{
 port echo categories:kde4
+port echo categories:kde4|grep -v 'kde-i18n-'|grep -v 'kde-l10n-'
 }}}
+The second command filters out the ports for translations of KDE applications into languages other than English.
 
 == User-required steps ==