Re: [gentoo-amd64] Heads-up: KDEers: Particularly kde3-ers,

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Duncan<1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> Those of you kde-ers, particularly kde3-ers (aka stable kde-ers),
> heads-up!
>
> If you aren't aware of the current gentoo kde (especially kde3)
> situation, you *NEED* to subscribe to the gentoo-desktop list (normally
> lower activity than here, so it shouldn't be a huge burden), AND check
> the archives for the last couple months.
>
> The short version:  kde3 is likely going to be masked, soon, apparently
> very possibly before any kde4 is ever marked stable.  The current plan is
> to leave kde3 in-tree but masked, probably until early next year, at
> which point it'll move to an overlay, kde-sunset or similarly named,
> where it'll be maintained primarily by interested users.
>
<SNIP>

Duncan,
   I am not a KDE user as I've always felt it's too large to build and
maintain on Gentoo, at least on my machines. That said it seems to me
that maybe you should consider cross-posting this to Gentoo-users as I
expect there are a lot of KDE-3 users there that aren't reading this
list.

   You might consider a more concise version of this if you do. you
have a lot to say on a subject that is clearly important to you.
However many folks might not be willing to dig in as deeply on first
reading as your first message here requires.

Cheers,
Mark