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On Friday 12 of March 2010 17:17:01 Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> On 12-03-2010 08:46:34 -0700, Denis Dupeyron wrote: |
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> > That said they were perfectly entitled to make the decision of not |
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> > wanting to maintain qt3 any longer. The only advice I can give is that |
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> > all disgruntled users and developers create a qt3 project and |
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> > adopt/unmask/re-commit the qt3 libraries for maintainers of packages |
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> > who need it. I doubt this will happen as this could have been done a |
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> > long time ago, but it's never too late. |
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> Didn't we have a graveyard thing/overlay somewhere some day? Some users |
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> might happily prefer to use stuff that's treecleaned, or removed due |
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> security issues. If removal of stuff would mean it's dumped in there it |
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> can be easily used by users and more easily readded later afterwards, if |
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> need arises. |
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Yes, it's called kde-sunset and it contains KDE3 and should contain Qt3 |
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applications (maybe it does, may not all of them though) removed from tree |
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recently. It's not graveyard really as some users actively maintain this |
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overlay. |
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http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde-sunset.git |
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(layman -a kde-sunset) |
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regards |
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MM |