From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nq7l3-00051F-Lq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:30:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EED97E093B; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:30:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.fr.smartjog.net (mx.fr.smartjog.net [91.197.165.186]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B22E07D4 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:30:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.30] (gdartigu.user.fr.lan [192.168.0.30]) (using SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.fr.smartjog.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2631575BD for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:30:31 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages From: Gilles Dartiguelongue To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20100312165910.36d2580a@gentoo.org> References: <7c612fc61003120746x5c3111d5wfbe1171d93a5bbad@mail.gmail.com> <20100312165910.36d2580a@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Gentoo Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:30:31 +0100 Message-ID: <1268411431.23804.9.camel@gdartigu.lan.rep.sj> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 390bb4c3-a02e-42d4-88b4-572d770bdb62 X-Archives-Hash: 5d6020d0dd18046b58eebbc047127e63 Le vendredi 12 mars 2010 =C3=A0 16:59 +0100, Alexis Ballier a =C3=A9crit = : > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:46:34 -0700 > Denis Dupeyron wrote: >=20 > [...] > > That said they were perfectly entitled to make the decision of not > > wanting to maintain qt3 any longer. The only advice I can give is tha= t > > all disgruntled users and developers create a qt3 project and > > adopt/unmask/re-commit the qt3 libraries for maintainers of packages > > who need it. I doubt this will happen as this could have been done a > > long time ago, but it's never too late. >=20 > Or like the old gtk-1: completely abandon the package and let the > consumers upgrade slowly. IMHO this is the less annoying approach for > everyone. Well the discussion about dropping glib-1 and gtk-1 pops up once in a while in the herd. The removal hasn't been done yet because we focus more on packages that pops most on bugzilla for example. --=20 Gilles Dartiguelongue Gentoo