From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 16:58:20 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 598C4DD9 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:58:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f49.google.com (mail-bk0-f49.google.com [209.85.214.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E66A07D6 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:58:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f49.google.com with SMTP id jm19so2167651bkc.36 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:58:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jM4YEY57EevR+623HmBtBp940M5N8vmCTc/v6QKhARY=; b=aUBTIf/idmNHtQgc/1U+V9CctqbxtGRCUdipsfeyGZX3NuvyVSaLZFwWentJtfNL9Y 62coHffi8d68srsqE4hv6To2PuM3gS5W5e92vF2k69RqjT0d3399m9JFm1HqJeEwlom4 AVonj4SnKxC14maY/O73O9UQx1Js19uDyvZuRNxxNh4UBVexRheJNKL65G6KrW4NsMY0 v4jIgzWs9KcqcTwEm/ZPaGe7QJklDHKapJT7ZFgy7mZJ3O8SM/4JGUIH9YFwlICu3J/S LHnn9yBRa5sYigHdswVUouLChdRjsQLFNzKp7eWGH+T86A6/qc67fWHNlfbB2YWPtkqm uZ1w== X-Received: by 10.204.154.202 with SMTP id p10mr2733432bkw.29.1358528298699; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:58:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (87-194-105-247.bethere.co.uk. [87.194.105.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i20sm4498275bkw.5.2013.01.18.08.58.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:58:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:58:11 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD Message-ID: <20130118165811.5b851b3f@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <1358472303.40523.YahooMailNeo@web133203.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> References: <1358472303.40523.YahooMailNeo@web133203.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:58:20 -0000 On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 +0000 (GMT) Georg Reilinger wrote: > As a consequence, I can see myself do two possible things, to have a > system > > running with KDE 3.5 once again: > > 1. Go back to an older release of FreeBSD and install KDE 3.5 from > the > that's pointless > 2. To be honest, I am quite happy with 8.2 and I would like to keep > it for some time to come. In other words, is there a way to keep 8.2 > and still have KDE 3.5 along with it? For example has anyone ever > tried to install a 7.1 pre-built package (KDE 3.5 in this case) on an > 8.2 system? Is that be possible? You can carry on using 3.5 on any current release. The problem is when it's eventually removed from ports, updating other ports may result in dependency problems.