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 1Nq8ax-0001SD-C4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:24:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 625A6E08B0; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:24:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com (mail-bw0-f219.google.com [209.85.218.219]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2302AE0883 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:24:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so1301130bwz.26 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:24:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:disposition-notification-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=mWNEashYGblL9mp2YBLDki8flJvotFjslQMsu+eTb7U=; b=QiLhBjKwsrWTWFJxkk+WWxeUQJuJlzAncRpcCCzHtIczQp7kZedRwkHzffTCjyukuX 2mXUgBB9GksKKTOb+Xo2sRsuYFriBGdFoGRMCGPUAPmhp1AZ0KWDlsuLoow1SdbvhuuR JQBNPiR3EK9YNczLlIADCF7amuASH5JygZEsc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :disposition-notification-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=avj3qVcjFy/3BdzlsM8+C+6+a0rY+OYqdQZjPUaK1dUZOaQ1E1LmOU9ye3/W9eHM1o WvqCB532jHufoTMSQUoswS1614cD8KmWQoaH2A8XwelA5/LdthXRGaqMQ36Snfkxx20y C6lYSha/CMrex7NDL+S3jY72wrxqwIUC7Mnpo= Received: by 10.204.32.196 with SMTP id e4mr397261bkd.131.1268414646404; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:24:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from lebrodyl.localnet (aafh67.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.4.137.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm932263bwz.14.2010.03.12.09.24.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:24:05 -0800 (PST) From: Maciej Mrozowski To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:24:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.4.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <7c612fc61003120746x5c3111d5wfbe1171d93a5bbad@mail.gmail.com> <20100312161701.GD13380@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20100312161701.GD13380@gentoo.org> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003121824.07522.reavertm@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: f1baed79-2137-4cf9-96fb-fed703ec7907 X-Archives-Hash: 8437acd7caef9d42b8bb9e1e7134b79d On Friday 12 of March 2010 17:17:01 Fabian Groffen wrote: > 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. Yes, it's called kde-sunset and it contains KDE3 and should contain Qt3 applications (maybe it does, may not all of them though) removed from tree recently. It's not graveyard really as some users actively maintain this overlay. http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde-sunset.git (layman -a kde-sunset) -- regards MM