Hi, since we are kinda deprecating kde3 and removing support where it clashes with newly stabled kde4 it deserves massive anouncements to users.
For first we have prepared the front-page thingie (as we already discussed over mails internaly) and for second we should have GLEP 42 news item ready too. Samuli was so kind to write up one based on the frontpage item so please read it and suggest improvements if required. Cheers Tomas
Title: KDE3 will be masked and removed from portage Author: Samuli Suominen <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2009-10-29 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: <kde-base/kdelibs-4 Please turn your KDE radio on, and make sure to turn the volume to its maximum level for this important message. After multiple setbacks we have finally managed to stabilise KDE4 on both major desktop architectures (amd64 and x86), where other teams are to follow. This means that those of you who still use KDE3 should start considering an upgrade right away, due to various reasons. [1] The KDE3 support is being dropped with immediate effect. This means that ebuilds are dropping KDE3 support where they were broken, or clashing with KDE4. If you wish to still use KDE3, and you want to help others with having KDE3 around, drop a mail to [email protected], where we can give you commit access to the special overlay which will specifically contain only KDE3 packages. [2] Sadly upstream is not supporting KDE3 anymore and we simply lack the manpower to keep support for both (as you might have noticed in the past few months KDE3 has become more and more rusty for which we humbly apologize). Sorry to bring you the bad news and with hope that KDE4 will suit your needs, Tomas Chvatal KDE Teams substituting Lead [1] - http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-desktop/msg_a3e260bd0545cb4e763c81bc60f81de2.xml [2] - http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde-sunset.git
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