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

Fri Mar 25 11:56:49 CET 2011

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:38, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
+> 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 is always written down on paper. Saying it's arbitrary because
+it comes out of packagers' experience is a tad extreme. Saying that
+"restricts freedoms of users" is clearly excessive here. Again, it's
+not as if it was a closed product: users can open the box and package
+stuff too (ah yes, it's not dead obvious to do so, but that's
+something we can aim to improve in the coming years).
+
+What will come out of Mageia, in June, won't satisfy everyone. Choices
+will have been done. A choice is arbitrary, always. It always says no
+to something. Implying that this would "restrict freedoms of users"
+would be laughable at best, offensive at worst, especially since this
+is an open source project.
+
+That's not to say that people will just have to help themselves, we
+expect to make something cool and useful, but we're not going to say
+"yes!" to everything and everyone either.
+
+> In the early days a 'contrib' repo was suggested for not officially
+> supported packages (I was for that idea too), this would be a good
+> situation where a 'contrib' repo would solve this matter for everyone.
+
+Please open a bug for that if you think it's worth discussing it again.
+
+Romain
+