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

Fri Mar 25 11:20:51 CET 2011

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Tux99 wrote:
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+> 
+> Quote: rdalverny wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 10:30
+> 
+> > Wait. What you seem to forget is that this is not only about rights
+> > but too about duties. The "freedom" above comes from people that take
+> > their time to craft and package things, so they are verily in their
+> > right and duty to make choices - documented, discussed, agreed. And
+> > it's not because just one or two people argue and argue the contrary
+> > that the maintainer should ... "obey". 
+> 
+> As a general principle in a community that values freedom anything that
+> doesn't affect others negatively shouldn't be arbitrarily restricted.
+> Also I never asked anyone else to do anything, I said I would reenable
+> qt3-devel unless there is a COMPELLING (i.e. blocking) reason not to do
+> so.
+
+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. The
+only reason that we keep the library and only removed the devel package
+is that some external LSB programs could use it, so we need it to be
+compatible with LSB.
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