On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 23/05/13 00:20, Eric Bélanger wrote: > > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Jan Alexander Steffens < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Greetings everypony, > >> > >> Can we throw out glib 1, gtk 1 and qt3? These are seriously legacy > >> libraries. > >> > >> Check "pactree -rs glib" and "pactree -rs qt3" for dependent packages. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Jan > >> > > > > Well gtk is a depends for imlib wich is required by fvwm, the WM I use. > > Unless imlib can work without gtk, I give a big -1 to removing glib/gtk > > from the repo. > > > > Beside the fact that they are old, is there any reason to remove them > from > > the repo? I maintain these threee packages and they are working well (no > > bug assigned). I don't see why they should be removed especially since > > many apps still depends on them. > > Do many apps really still depend on qt3? I though even Debian managed > to go qt3 free in the latest release... > > Allan > > > A dozen. Then you have kdelibs3 and pyqt3 which are also dependencies of other packages. So we're probably talking about 20 qt3 packages.
