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

Mon Mar 28 02:15:08 CEST 2011

On 27 March 2011 23:02, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
+> nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> writes:
+>
+>> And do you have any objective compelling reason to include qt3-devel,
+>> other than an arbitrary reason based on personal preferences ?
+>
+> For the same reason that you added Qt3: LSB
+>
+> If we want to be LSB compliant, it seems reasonable to provide the tools
+> to build LSB-compliant packages.
+>
+> And also for qcad.
+>
+> If you think Qt3 is not maintained and should not be supported, then
+> just drop the package...
+> I see no reason for having half of the package.
+>
+> --
+> Olivier Blin - blino
+>
+
+IIRC, stewbintn said qt3 dep will/is planned to be dropped from LSB upstream.
+
+And just so that I make myself clearer, from my POV this thread is not
+about adding, half-adding or half-removing or throwing qt3-devel out
+the window... IMHO this is about whether or not to add Trinity to the
+Mageia repos, that's the more important issue. Given how much a sticky
+situation mdv was in with KDE4 in main and KDE3 in contrib that
+doesn't look like an ideal situation for Mageia (IMHO).
+
+(Also in one of the posts in this thread, someone said Trinity is
+planning port KDE3 apps to Qt4, and here's me thinking that the
+porting-of-kde3-apps-to-Qt4 has already happened in a project called
+KDE4 that made its first initial release on the 11th of January 2008,
+about 3 years ago, c.f.
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Software_Compilation_4....)
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+