From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 18:27:53 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 764FF159 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:27:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from avasout08.plus.net (avasout08.plus.net [212.159.14.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C62CCE8C for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:27:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([84.92.153.232]) by avasout08 with smtp id pWQh1k003516WCc01WQizP; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:24:42 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=b6RsFK6x c=1 sm=1 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:17 a=Fu_n5yJQHbEA:10 a=u54JFelAJEcA:10 a=ZTb9aqGL9YkA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=D7rCoLxHAAAA:8 a=S1Qh0pZ8r2wA:10 a=RAcyXFVHlEZ6Bz_qwcMA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:117 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13]) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1TwGcK-0006XA-Vk for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:24:41 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:24:40 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/9.1-RELEASE; KDE/4.8.4; amd64; ; ) References: <1358472303.40523.YahooMailNeo@web133203.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> <20130118165811.5b851b3f@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20130118165811.5b851b3f@gumby.homeunix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201301181824.40349.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) 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 18:27:53 -0000 On Friday 18 January 2013 16:58:11 RW wrote: > 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. I'm already starting to experience some problems which I assume are due to incompatibility with some recently upgraded dependencies and I've finally, and somewhat reluctantly, switched to KDE 4.8. It's certainly more bloated than 3.5 but after getting rid of some unwanted eye candy it's not as bad as I expected, certainly better than last time I tried it out about a year ago. The most noticeable deterioration in performance is that it's much slower to start up than 3.5 was and kmail takes much longer to open a mail "folder" than it used to. -- Mike Clarke