On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Piotr Gbyliczek <piotr.gbyliczek@reconnix.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 16 September 2015 19:22:28 Felix Miata wrote:
> Kevin Kofler composed on 2015-09-16 23:47 (UTC+0200):
> > Felix Miata wrote:
> >> That is in part because both cannot coexist on the same installation.
> >> OTOH, KDE3 can coexist and is still available. And in Fedora, TDE can
> >> also
> >> coexist with v5.
> >
> > That explanation is incomplete. No 2 major versions of KDE can coexist in
> > the same prefix. The reason OpenSUSE's KDE 3 is parallel-installable (with
> > KDE/Plasma 4 or Plasma 5) is that they used the /opt/kde3 prefix for it.
> > They stopped doing that with their KDE 4 packaging and now use the
> > standard
> > /usr prefix instead. So they are now stuck in the same situation as we
> > are.
>
> Just guessing, using /opt might have been so that kde2 and kde3 could have
> been released in parallel, as happened with kde3 (in /opt) and kde4
> (standard), to avoid what happened when kde3 was deprecated in favor of kde4
> before it evolved into a similarly competent replacement. In openSUSE, kde3
> remains available in standard repos, though it's not available as a primary
> DE selection in its installer.


Looking at this discussion, I'm almost sure that people that would like to
have KDE4 won't be bothered with having Plasma 5 installed, so Copr repo that
removes Plasma 5  would be ideal for them :)

I'm personally not that eager to get my system updated to latest release of
Fedora, so I'm hoping when I will update, Plasma 5 will be much more usable to
me. However, I can give some of my time to help track packages and add
Obsoletes to spec files if somebody gives me separate Copr repo and some basic
guidelines how one should work with such task.

Regards,
Piotr
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I am essentially in the same position (although usually I *am* more eager to upgrade from Fedora N-1 to Fedora N; the only time I've ever held off before was Fedora 15 and that was because of the GNOME change... which is, ironically, why I switched to KDE).

I'd be willing to donate some time to such an effort (KDE4 in a Copr for Fedora 22+) too; if there are a couple other people who are serious about this perhaps we should start a new thread on the subject?

Ben Rosser