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On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:13:32PM +0100, Raffaele Belardi wrote |
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> One of my son's favourite games (hedgewars) is going out of tree |
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> due to dependency on deprecated QT4. |
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> I already have a local overlay with a modified hedgewars ebuild |
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> which adds support for a non-standard USE flag but I suppose this |
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> will not be sufficient to continue using/building the game. Once the |
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> dependencies will go out of tree also there will be little chance |
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> to rebuild the game if necessary, right?. |
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If you're looking at long-term, I would suggest installing a separate |
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machine or chroot or VM, which will not be updated. If you keep it long |
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enough, the main system is going to get to the point where either |
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hedgewars doesn't work or your regular apps don't work. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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