Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

On Friday 12 March 2010 15:18:21 Robert Bradbury wrote:
> It would appear that the pending (0321) mask of Qt3 will break
> sci-misc/qcad, sci-chemistry/xdrawchem and x11-misc/glunarclock.
> 
[..]
> 
> Thank you,
> Robert Bradbury
The decision about removing Qt3 has been made 9 months ago, the decision about 
the upcoming mask has been made 4 months ago. So you had all the time to move 
to Qt4. We aint gonna maintain a package ( or library if you prefer ) that has 
been abandoned from upstream a long time ago. So if you still want to use it, 
please add kde-sunset overlay. We dont have neither the manpower nor the time 
to patch/fix/maintainer/etc/etc/ Qt3 anymore. However, we DO offer you like 6 
different versions of Qt4
*4.5.3
*4.6.1
*4.6.2
*4.6.9999
*4.7.9999
*4.7-prerelease ( soon )
*4.9999

Which we actively maintain. We decided to move forward and we are aware that 
few of our users might not like it. If you still want a working Qt3, please 
take care of it on kde-sunset

Thanks

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Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
Gentoo Linux Developer
Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org