Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 12:22:55AM +0400, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I'd like to remove some packages with dead upstream. You can find the >> list of packages and their reverse-dependencies here: >> https://nixos.org/wiki/Deprecated_packages >> >> If you're interested in some of these packages, add a comment to the wiki >> page. > > What is that trinity project about, that it is related to the qt3 programs > in nixpkgs? Look at their homepage. > > Why we want to get rid of qt3? E.g., it fails to build against libpng-1.5. > What's the advantadge? Easier upgrades of dependencies of qt-3.x. > I think I prefer it to stay. Could you please fix it in branches/libpng15 (probably fetching patches/sources from trinity project)?
> We have lots of other unmaintained libs or packages, that do > quite a good job despite that. I do not want to remove useful unmaintained packages. I want to remove unmaintained packages that nobody use. So, add "don't remove; viric" comments to packages that you're using. -- Yury G. Kudryashov, mailto: [email protected] _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
