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

nicolas vigier boklm at mars-attacks.org
Fri Mar 25 11:50:41 CET 2011


On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Tux99 wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.

Why do you want to have a qt3-devel package on the official repos, if
it's not to have other packages based on it ?

> 
> 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?

Nothing prevent you from building the package on your computer if you
want it. But we don't want it on the repository for the reasons already
explained ...



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