FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

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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.