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

Fri Mar 25 16:40:07 CET 2011

Hoyt Duff wrote:
+> On 3/25/11, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
+>>
+>> Quote: yves wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 09:42
+>> ----------------------------------------------------
+>>> Hi,
+>>> QT4 is released since 2005, about... 6 years ?
+>>> So, why is it usefull to maintain a package that "becomes" depreciated
+>>> ?
+>> You are missing the point. QT3 is already part of Mageia and it wasn't me
+>> who added it. All I'm asking is if there is any compelling reason not to
+>> enable qt3-devel in the existing qt3
+>> source package that is part of Mageia.
+>>
+>> If there isn't any COMPELLING reason, then qt3-devel should be reenabled as
+>> long as someone wishes it.
+>>
+> 
+> You're missing their point.
+> 
+> I agree, there is no 'compelling reason' not to offer it. The people
+> doing the work just don't want to because enabling it means they have
+> to support it. _Since Mageia doesn't need it for anything_, it makes no
+> sense to enable it; it consumes scarce resources for no direct
+> benefit. You are free to re-compile QT3 and enable it yourself, which
+> is what i suggest.
+[...]
+> 
+
+Hi again,
+
+You are wrong, there are software which need qt3-devel, but they have 
+been removed from Mageia!
+I have just taken a look at Mageia "missing package" list, and QCad will 
+be removed because it is built against QT3 (quoting: "qcad: stewb - 
+noimport(started to do this one, but as I understand we'd like to drop 
+Qt3, so I stopped)")
+
+Remember: QCad is a 2D professional drawing tool and it has NO 
+equivalent on Linux, so removing it is clearly a regression compared to 
+Mandriva.
+
+Sad to see that "you" are stuck at removing as useful packages as 
+qt3-devel. Contrarily to what you wrote, It _is_ still needed (not only 
+for my personal needs) and removing it has side effects because it 
+implies removing software (with no replacement) from the mandriva list ...
+
+Please reconsider your choices,
+Xavier
+
+P.S. I use Mandriva and QCad at work.
+