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

Thu Mar 24 00:39:43 CET 2011

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 18:58, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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?
+
+Trinity will be another DE
+
+>
+> 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.
+
+As I reiterate, Trinity does not interfere with KDE4 in any way, if
+you keep /opt/kde3
+
+>
+>>> 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
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+later, Robert Xu
+