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

Wed Mar 30 13:46:14 CEST 2011

On 28 March 2011 02:15, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>> 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....)
+
+Although I would agree to have qt3-devel, I do remember the upgrade
+disaster due to kde3 being in contribs.
+It was there due to good intentions from some contributors
+but it resulted in errors while performing network upgrade
+ending in half upgrades of gtk+/perl/ which broke our tools
+(among them rpmdrake).
+
+We do have to consider our past experience...
+