W dniu nie, 03.12.2017 o godzinie 20∶54 +0000, użytkownik James Le
Cuirot napisał:
> On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 20:41:56 +0100
> Andreas Sturmlechner <ast...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > # Andreas Sturmlechner <ast...@gentoo.org> (03 Dec 2017)
> > # Dead upstreams, depending on dead qt3support/qt4.
> > # Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #631788
> > ...
> > games-kids/crayon-physics
> 
> This is a commercial game that I have played in the past and still have
> installed. I think you have to take special consideration over packages
> for things that people have paid money for. You can't so easily say
> "Oh just play another game then." You also can't expect "upstream" to
> address the issue. We have sometimes left vulnerable commercial games
> masked in the tree but in this case, the offender is the Qt4
> dependency. I'm guessing that we won't be leaving Qt4 masked in the
> tree so I'm not sure what to suggest. The game does bundle some
> libraries but Qt4 isn't one of them, not that that would be a great
> idea anyway.
> 
> I wondered if this would also affect Steam but Qt isn't in the
> Ubuntu-based runtime so any game using it would need to bundle it with
> the game itself. I haven't come across any other commercial games using
> Qt but this proves that there is at least one.
> 

Short answer: overlay.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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