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<H1>[Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)</H1>
<B>andre999</B>
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<I>Sat Mar 26 11:23:49 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
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</I>><i> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:38, Tux99<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tux99-mga at uridium.org</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i> Also is there an official rule somewhere that specifies:
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> "because we don't want to have software built on a deprecated library in
</I>>><i> the repository"
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> or is this simply an arbitrary rule that restricts freedoms of users and
</I>>><i> other packagers?
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</I>><i> Nothing is always written down on paper. Saying it's arbitrary because
</I>><i> it comes out of packagers' experience is a tad extreme. Saying that
</I>><i> "restricts freedoms of users" is clearly excessive here. Again, it's
</I>><i> not as if it was a closed product: users can open the box and package
</I>><i> stuff too (ah yes, it's not dead obvious to do so, but that's
</I>><i> something we can aim to improve in the coming years).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> What will come out of Mageia, in June, won't satisfy everyone. Choices
</I>><i> will have been done. A choice is arbitrary, always. It always says no
</I>><i> to something. Implying that this would "restrict freedoms of users"
</I>><i> would be laughable at best, offensive at worst, especially since this
</I>><i> is an open source project.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> That's not to say that people will just have to help themselves, we
</I>><i> expect to make something cool and useful, but we're not going to say
</I>><i> "yes!" to everything and everyone either.
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> In the early days a 'contrib' repo was suggested for not officially
</I>>><i> supported packages (I was for that idea too), this would be a good
</I>>><i> situation where a 'contrib' repo would solve this matter for everyone.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Please open a bug for that if you think it's worth discussing it again.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Romain
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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 ...
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André
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