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 1Nq7Yd-00048P-Qw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:17:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30C2EE0A40; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:17:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amun.cheops.ods.org (amun.cheops.ods.org [82.95.138.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E98E08EA for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:17:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tefnut.cheops.ods.org ([2001:888:1022:0:211:24ff:fe37:e46e] helo=gentoo.org) by amun.cheops.ods.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Nq7YP-0000du-9y for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:17:39 +0100 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:17:01 +0100 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages Message-ID: <20100312161701.GD13380@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <7c612fc61003120746x5c3111d5wfbe1171d93a5bbad@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7c612fc61003120746x5c3111d5wfbe1171d93a5bbad@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (Darwin 8.11.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Content-Scanned: by amun.cheops.ods.org (Exim Exiscan) using SpamAssassin and ClamAV X-Archives-Salt: 2bba8fc7-9079-4af9-8b34-baea7afd1c37 X-Archives-Hash: 995b013c294fcdc135dd18d6612b408a On 12-03-2010 08:46:34 -0700, Denis Dupeyron wrote: > 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 that > 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. Didn't we have a graveyard thing/overlay somewhere some day? Some users might happily prefer to use stuff that's treecleaned, or removed due security issues. If removal of stuff would mean it's dumped in there it can be easily used by users and more easily readded later afterwards, if need arises. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level