After the shoving is done — and it is, for the most part — it is time to fill up the void left behind by the KDE4 ports that have been shoved aside. In other words, all over the place <foo> has been shoved aside to <foo>-kde4, and now it’s time to reintroduce <foo>, but in the modern KDE Applications form. For instance, there is now a science/kalzium-kde4 (the old stuff) and a science/kalzium (the new stuff). It’s not 100% complete, but most of the applications are there.

Tobias has been the driving force behind this, with ports commits like r466877 which introduced the modern KDE applications in science/. So a huge shout-out to his work in bringing things almost-up-to-date.

Note that we now have KDE Frameworks (5.44 .. there’s an exp-run planned for this week’s 5.45 release) and KDE Applications (17.12.3) but not a Plasma 5 Desktop; so you will be running KDE Applications on the older desktop of your choice if you’re using FreeBSD ports.