Re: pkg/51235 (KDE 4 can't be installed from packages)

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/51235; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: maya%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/51235 (KDE 4 can't be installed from packages)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 23:13:44 +0000

 On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 05:10:18AM +0000, maya%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
  > Synopsis: KDE 4 can't be installed from packages
  > 
  > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
  > State-Changed-By: maya%NetBSD.org@localhost
  > State-Changed-When: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 05:10:18 +0000
  > State-Changed-Why:
  > [...]
  > keeping a bug for "kde4 might be broken at any point at time" is strange.
 
 Well. The point was that there should be a way to set up metapackages
 so that you still get most of the install from them even if some
 pieces are broken.
 
 But probably that should be a separate explicit PR.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost