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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:59:27
Message-Id: 20100312165910.36d2580a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages by Denis Dupeyron
1 On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:46:34 -0700
2 Denis Dupeyron <calchan@g.o> wrote:
3
4 [...]
5 > That said they were perfectly entitled to make the decision of not
6 > wanting to maintain qt3 any longer. The only advice I can give is that
7 > all disgruntled users and developers create a qt3 project and
8 > adopt/unmask/re-commit the qt3 libraries for maintainers of packages
9 > who need it. I doubt this will happen as this could have been done a
10 > long time ago, but it's never too late.
11
12 Or like the old gtk-1: completely abandon the package and let the
13 consumers upgrade slowly. IMHO this is the less annoying approach for
14 everyone.
15
16
17 Alexis.

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