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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite (part 1): KDE3-only applications that won't build when KDE4 is installed
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:49:03
Message-Id: 4AF1F6C0.6000902@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite (part 1): KDE3-only applications that won't build when KDE4 is installed by Ben de Groot
1 Ben de Groot wrote:
2 > 2009/11/4 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>:
3 >
4 >> Is it possible to just mask and maybe keyword KDE 3?
5 >>
6 >
7 > This has already been decided. We are moving it to an overlay.
8 > I can't think of a valid reason why you would not use that overlay.
9 >
10
11 Because I don't want one more thing to have to deal with. Gentoo is
12 enough fun already.
13
14 >
15 >> Maybe do a news item as to why it is being done?
16 >>
17 >
18 > There *is* a news item:
19 > /usr/portage/metadata/news/2009-11-02-kde-3/2009-11-02-kde-3.en.txt
20 >
21 > Which references
22 > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-desktop/msg_a3e260bd0545cb4e763c81bc60f81de2.xml
23 >
24 > And for Qt3 there is
25 > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_e81a66259e844162ef7f2db2a358d440.xml
26 >
27 > Cheers,
28 >
29
30 I was talking about *if* KDE 3.5 was masked then have a news item as to
31 why it was being masked. Since keeping it in the tree is not going to
32 happen then there is no point.
33
34 Dale
35
36 :-) :-)

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