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

[xi]

nicolas vigier wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Tux99 wrote:
> 
>>
>> Quote: nicolas vigier wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 12:08
>>
>>> Because we want to be sure that nothing is built on this library.
>> So you are arbitrarily making life harder to people like Xavier and
>> myself.
> 
> And you want to arbitrarily make life a lot harder to people who want
> to make sure the distribution is not based on obsolete and unmaintained
> software.
> 
> On the other hand, rebuilding a qt3 package yourself takes a few
> minutes.
[...]
> You're building other software, but you can't rebuild a qt3 package
> yourself ?
> 

Sorry but I can't agree here: when I build a software, I like to build 
_just_ the software, not the whole system around! (I would use a Gentoo 
otherwise).
I loved Mandriva because of this point: it was at the same time simple 
to use AND full of resource to build and customize specialized applications.

If you are on this way, you can also remove QCad*: yes it is old, 
unmaintained and based on QT3 - but still the best free 2D drawing 
software on Linux ...

As a user, I still use applications which needs qt3 and with no 
equivalent based on QT4 ; so I would like qt3-devel to be included in Mageia

I can't see the point in not including packages just because they are 
unmaintained. They are still used and useful + you have people who want 
to package them, so ?

Thanks for reading me,
Xavier

* maybe it is already removed from Mageia, I didn't checked. But I think 
I can find a lot of other example of obsolete & unmaintained software 
but still useful which were in Mandriva (eg xmms).