It appears that there’s no one left to maintain the KDE 4 packages in the main software repositories of the GNU/Linux distribution, and the unanimous decision of the Arch Linux devs was to remove them from the repos, because it is becoming very difficult to keep both KDE 4 and KDE Plasma 5 up-to-date.
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