> "BdG" == Ben de Groot writes:
BdG> On 14 March 2010 06:09, James Cloos wrote:
>>> "BdG" == Ben de Groot writes:
>>
BdG> Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree.
>>
>> Nonsense. That attitude only servers to harm the user base.
BdG> You're wrong. It serves to protect o
On 14 March 2010 06:09, James Cloos wrote:
>> "BdG" == Ben de Groot writes:
>
> BdG> Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree.
>
> Nonsense. That attitude only servers to harm the user base.
You're wrong. It serves to protect our users from potentially
broken and vulnerable pack
On Sunday 14 of March 2010 06:09:44 James Cloos wrote:
> > "BdG" == Ben de Groot writes:
> BdG> Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree.
>
> Nonsense. That attitude only servers to harm the user base.
>
> Leaving them in does not.
But leaving them broken and unmaintained in ma
> "BdG" == Ben de Groot writes:
BdG> Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree.
Nonsense. That attitude only servers to harm the user base.
Leaving them in does not.
-JimC
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On Friday 12 March 2010 15:18:21 Robert Bradbury wrote:
> It would appear that the pending (0321) mask of Qt3 will break
> sci-misc/qcad, sci-chemistry/xdrawchem and x11-misc/glunarclock.
>
[..]
>
> Thank you,
> Robert Bradbury
The decision about removing Qt3 has been made 9 months ago, the decis
On 12 March 2010 16:59, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> Or like the old gtk-1: completely abandon the package and let the
> consumers upgrade slowly. IMHO this is the less annoying approach for
> everyone.
Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. That's
why we have a treecleaners project.
C
On 12 March 2010 14:18, Robert Bradbury wrote:
> It would appear that the pending (0321) mask of Qt3 will break
> sci-misc/qcad, sci-chemistry/xdrawchem and x11-misc/glunarclock.
The mask has already been in place since March 1st.
> a) Has research been done to determine whether there are replac
On Friday 12 of March 2010 17:17:01 Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 12-03-2010 08:46:34 -0700, Denis Dupeyron wrote:
> > That said they were perfectly entitled to make the decision of not
> > wanting to maintain qt3 any longer. The only advice I can give is that
> > all disgruntled users and developers
On 12/03/10 17:17, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 12-03-2010 08:46:34 -0700, Denis Dupeyron wrote:
>> That said they were perfectly entitled to make the decision of not
>> wanting to maintain qt3 any longer. The only advice I can give is that
>> all disgruntled users and developers create a qt3 project
Le vendredi 12 mars 2010 à 16:59 +0100, Alexis Ballier a écrit :
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:46:34 -0700
> Denis Dupeyron wrote:
>
> [...]
> > That said they were perfectly entitled to make the decision of not
> > wanting to maintain qt3 any longer. The only advice I can give is that
> > all disgrun
On 12-03-2010 08:46:34 -0700, Denis Dupeyron wrote:
> That said they were perfectly entitled to make the decision of not
> wanting to maintain qt3 any longer. The only advice I can give is that
> all disgruntled users and developers create a qt3 project and
> adopt/unmask/re-commit the qt3 librarie
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:46:34 -0700
Denis Dupeyron wrote:
[...]
> That said they were perfectly entitled to make the decision of not
> wanting to maintain qt3 any longer. The only advice I can give is that
> all disgruntled users and developers create a qt3 project and
> adopt/unmask/re-commit the
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Robert Bradbury
wrote:
> It would appear that the pending (0321) mask of Qt3 will break
> sci-misc/qcad, sci-chemistry/xdrawchem and x11-misc/glunarclock.
I'm not concerned but I feel sympathy for those who use these packages
and many others. The decision from the
It would appear that the pending (0321) mask of Qt3 will break
sci-misc/qcad, sci-chemistry/xdrawchem and x11-misc/glunarclock.
These are fairly significant science packages for which there are no current
(qt4) or "equivalent" packages. While on one hand it may not do much harm
to mask Qt3 based
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