For Arch users of KDE Plasma and applications, are essential packages ever missing? <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Installation>
From https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/307b8cdef5d4dcd30f5fdc4... for FreeBSD:
> It's not unusual for a Tier 1 platform to have no package for a wanted desktop environment. Two platforms are at this tier: …
For example, kde for FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT was recently missing for a few days for AMD64; is still missing for aarch64 (64-bit ARMv8).
This is not to criticise the maintainers of packages or repos. I do understand the constraints.
The absence of an essential meta package is, inescapably, an impedance when aiming to test installers and upgrades, especially with pkgbase.
For Arch users of KDE Plasma and applications, are essential packages ever missing? <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Installation>
From https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/307b8cdef5d4dcd30f5fdc4... for FreeBSD:
> It's not unusual for a Tier 1 platform to have no package for a wanted desktop environment. Two platforms are at this tier: …
For example, kde for FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT was recently missing for a few days for AMD64; is still missing for aarch64 (64-bit ARMv8).
This is not to criticise the maintainers of packages or repos. I do understand the constraints.
The absence of an essential meta package is, inescapably, an impedance when aiming to test installers and upgrades, especially with pkgbase.