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 1NqPvA-0006O7-Vi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:54:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0F13E0B69; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:54:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from p3plsmtpa01-06.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa01-06.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [72.167.82.86]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19A16E0904 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:54:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 31359 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2010 11:54:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (94.66.146.38) by p3plsmtpa01-06.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (72.167.82.86) with ESMTP; 13 Mar 2010 11:54:15 -0000 From: Markos Chandras To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:54:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.32-zen6; KDE/4.4.1; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: 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="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003131354.30910.hwoarang@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: e8b37035-97f7-4bac-9ba3-35239f58d82c X-Archives-Hash: 285816f465274955bc71731ecbcc627d 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 -- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org