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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Robert Bradbury |
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<robert.bradbury@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> It would appear that the pending (0321) mask of Qt3 will break |
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> sci-misc/qcad, sci-chemistry/xdrawchem and x11-misc/glunarclock. |
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I'm not concerned but I feel sympathy for those who use these packages |
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and many others. The decision from the qt project to remove qt3 and |
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all its dependencies from the tree is suboptimal to say the least. A |
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library project should be at the service of those using the library, |
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not dictating to those using it. |
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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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Denis. |
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