Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-20 Thread James Cloos
BdG == Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org writes: BdG On 14 March 2010 06:09, James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com wrote: BdG == Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org writes: BdG Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. Nonsense.  That attitude only servers to harm the user base. BdG You're

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-14 Thread Ben de Groot
On 14 March 2010 06:09, James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com wrote: BdG == Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org writes: BdG Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. Nonsense.  That attitude only servers to harm the user base. You're wrong. It serves to protect our users from potentially

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread James Cloos
BdG == Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org writes: BdG Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. Nonsense. That attitude only servers to harm the user base. Leaving them in does not. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Sunday 14 of March 2010 06:09:44 James Cloos wrote: BdG == Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org writes: BdG Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. Nonsense. That attitude only servers to harm the user base. Leaving them in does not. But leaving them broken and unmaintained

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-12 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Robert Bradbury robert.bradb...@gmail.com wrote: It would appear that the pending (0321) mask of Qt3 will break sci-misc/qcad, sci-chemistry/xdrawchem and x11-misc/glunarclock. I'm not concerned but I feel sympathy for those who use these packages and many

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-12 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:46:34 -0700 Denis Dupeyron calc...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] That said they were perfectly entitled to make the decision of not wanting to maintain qt3 any longer. The only advice I can give is that all disgruntled users and developers create a qt3 project and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-12 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 12-03-2010 08:46:34 -0700, Denis Dupeyron wrote: That said they were perfectly entitled to make the decision of not wanting to maintain qt3 any longer. The only advice I can give is that all disgruntled users and developers create a qt3 project and adopt/unmask/re-commit the qt3 libraries

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-12 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le vendredi 12 mars 2010 à 16:59 +0100, Alexis Ballier a écrit : On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:46:34 -0700 Denis Dupeyron calc...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] That said they were perfectly entitled to make the decision of not wanting to maintain qt3 any longer. The only advice I can give is that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-12 Thread justin
On 12/03/10 17:17, Fabian Groffen wrote: On 12-03-2010 08:46:34 -0700, Denis Dupeyron wrote: That said they were perfectly entitled to make the decision of not wanting to maintain qt3 any longer. The only advice I can give is that all disgruntled users and developers create a qt3 project and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-12 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Friday 12 of March 2010 17:17:01 Fabian Groffen wrote: On 12-03-2010 08:46:34 -0700, Denis Dupeyron wrote: That said they were perfectly entitled to make the decision of not wanting to maintain qt3 any longer. The only advice I can give is that all disgruntled users and developers create

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-12 Thread Ben de Groot
On 12 March 2010 14:18, Robert Bradbury robert.bradb...@gmail.com wrote: It would appear that the pending (0321) mask of Qt3 will break sci-misc/qcad, sci-chemistry/xdrawchem and x11-misc/glunarclock. The mask has already been in place since March 1st. a) Has research been done to determine

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-12 Thread Ben de Groot
On 12 March 2010 16:59, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: Or like the old gtk-1: completely abandon the package and let the consumers upgrade slowly. IMHO this is the less annoying approach for everyone. Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. That's why we have a