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Em 30-12-2009 15:14, Ben de Groot escreveu:
> As announced 5 months ago[1], Gentoo's Qt team now officially
> deprecates usage of x11-libs/qt:3 and packages depending on this
> version of Qt. The only supported and maintained version of Qt, both
> by the upstream developers (Nokia) and the Gentoo Qt Project, is now
> only version 4 (specifically >=4.5.3). As a result we have decided on
> a policy and timeline for the removal of qt:3 and ebuilds depending on
> it. We are dedicated to do anything we reasonably can to make sure
> that Qt4 versions or equivalents of the remaining Qt3 packages in the
> portage tree are available. The deprecated ebuilds for qt:3, and
> packages using it, will remain available in the community-maintained
> kde-sunset overlay.
>
>
> # Timeline #
>
> 2010-01-01:
>
> * mark qt:3 as deprecated with ewarn
> * mask qt3 useflag in profiles
> * add ewarn to qt3.eclass with link to removal policy
> * prepare news item about qt:3 deprecation and future removal
>
> 2010-01-21:
>
> * Qt team meeting: discuss actions to be taken regarding remaining
> pkgs that use qt:3
>
> 2010-02-21:
>
> * mask qt:3 and depending ebuilds, pending removal
>
> 2010-03-21:
>
> * remove qt:3 and depending ebuilds from the tree
> * remove masks
> * clean profiles from qt3 remnants
> * mark qt3.eclass as deprecated pending later removal
>
>
> # Policy for remaining ebuilds depending on qt:3 #
>
> * if Qt3 optional, remove this option
> * if Qt4 depending version stable, remove Qt3 depending versions
> * if Qt4 depending version in testing, mark stable, then remove older versions
> * if no Qt4 version in tree, get Qt4 version in testing by 2010-01-21
> and stable by 2010-02-21
> * if no Qt4 version exists, check for equivalent/replacement packages,
> and mask by 2010-02-21
>
> Note: for packages that currently have no version marked stable, the
> references to stabling Qt4 versions obviously don't apply.
>
> 1:
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/msg_d851e05567d538b662f34de8dfdb7316.xml
>
> Cheers,
A question:
My systems don't use qt3 use flag since six months ago, but using
qt3support USE FLAG. It's sane keep this flag set in make.conf?
Thanks for now.
p.s.: sorry if this is not the place to this question.
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