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

Sat Mar 26 11:23:49 CET 2011

Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
+>
+> 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
+
+Isn't there a repo just for testing packages ? (Maybe "people" or 
+"software" ?)
+Maybe if they use that they'll feel a little less "demotivated".
+And maybe once their project is stable, qt3-devel could be considered 
+just for building their package, until they switch to qt4 ?
+Just some ideas ...
+
+-- 
+André
+