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Due to the removal of qt4, all of its reverse dependencies are also going |
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to be removed. |
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This decision has already been made by the qt project and is not up for |
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discussion. |
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Furthermore, qt4 has a large number of security bugs and it has also been |
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brought to my attention that it even fails to build in a few cases, and |
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finally it is no longer being maintained by upstream. Therefore, due to |
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the build failures making it impossible to even install in a large number |
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of cases, and thus skype classic, I'm no longer going to maintain it. |
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Anyone who really wants to keep classic skype still, feel free to install |
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the "kde sunset" overlay to recover the soon-to-be-removed qt4 dependencies |
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and for the moment make a snapshot of the ebuild before it is removed from |
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the portage tree. |
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Also, even though they haven't *yet* followed through, microsoft has |
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announced already that the classic version of skype will eventually be |
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EOL'ed. at the moment you're still able to install it as of 48 hours ago |
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last time I checked, but it is on the chopping block and likely will |
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eventually be removed from download, as well as banned from microsoft's |
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login servers. Once this happens further usage will be impossible. |
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No further support can be offered on skype classic, and it is eventually |
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going to be removed from the portage tree for the reasons listed above. |