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 1Nq7wL-00063p-G6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:42:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14121E0993; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:42:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5818BE0937 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:42:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [134.94.85.9] (ibi199.ibi.kfa-juelich.de [134.94.85.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BDDA1B4096; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4B9A6ECB.3000706@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:41:47 +0100 From: justin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100308 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.3 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages References: <7c612fc61003120746x5c3111d5wfbe1171d93a5bbad@mail.gmail.com> <20100312161701.GD13380@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20100312161701.GD13380@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig5E100429D8DC36B21F635357" X-Archives-Salt: 41fdd454-35ec-4bc2-9a2b-c39a824f6c85 X-Archives-Hash: 18f065144bc09fcf264e9f2bec558162 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig5E100429D8DC36B21F635357 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 12/03/10 17:17, 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. >=20 > Didn't we have a graveyard thing/overlay somewhere some day? Some user= s > 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 i= t > can be easily used by users and more easily readded later afterwards, i= f > need arises. >=20 >=20 As we have the "overlay depend on overlay" support now, we could easily put those packages into the sci overlay, if there would be a qt3 support/lib overlay. --------------enig5E100429D8DC36B21F635357 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuabssACgkQgAnW8HDreRaYUQCgl6MU50soorUoY8eGl23CDkhm Qo4AoLRFWQcJoKyzT6eRAz0N0hs7btLK =wlOk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig5E100429D8DC36B21F635357--