[Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

[Tux99]

Quote: nicolas vigier wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 11:20

> The COMPELLING reason has already been said. It's because we don't
> want
> to have software built on a deprecated library in the repository.

That is not a compelling reason as Xavier's post showed for example.

Having a qt3-devel packages does not automatically imply having packages
based on it in the official repos.

Also is there an official rule somewhere that specifies:

"because we don't want to have software built on a deprecated library in
the repository"

or is this simply an arbitrary rule that restricts freedoms of users and
other packagers?


In the early days a 'contrib' repo was suggested for not officially
supported packages (I was for that idea too), this would be a good
situation where a 'contrib' repo would solve this matter for everyone.

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