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

Wed Mar 23 23:58:50 CET 2011

On 24 March 2011 00:48, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
+> Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> writes:
+>
+>> We shouldn't under any circumstances add kde3 in the repos, fork or not.
+>>
+>> Users see a package in the repos and they expect it to be maintained,
+>> this will not be the case, we can't support KDE4 and KDE3 at the same
+>> time. Past experience tells us this is a major hassle/pain, and we
+>> shouldn't have to go back to that murky situation.
+>
+> That's not KDE3, it's a fork with new maintainers.
+>
+
+The point still stands, will Trinity be another DE? or will we have to
+add conflicts in Trinity <-> KDE4 specs?
+
+If the latter, then I don't fancy adding the conflicts in each of the
+various kde4 specs (having just removed them a few months ago, and
+that took quite a lot of work), just to have another DE.
+
+>> Also there shouldn't be any qt3 dependant packages in the repos; the
+>> only and sole reason qt3 is in the Mageia repos is that stewbintn said
+>> he needs it for some LSB stuff, but nothing is built with qt3-devel as
+>> BR AFAIK and nothing should be.
+>
+> It should be ok to add back qt3-devel temporarily, and remove it again
+> once Trinity gets ported to Qt4.
+>
+> --
+> Olivier Blin - blino
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+