Re: [Nix-dev] KDE4, KDM, and 17.03

2017-02-13 Thread Graham Christensen
Graham Christensen writes: > IOW it would be fairly tricky to be thorough. Also we want to be privacy conscious, I think. Graham ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl

Re: [Nix-dev] KDE4, KDM, and 17.03

2017-02-13 Thread Graham Christensen
Peter Hoeg writes: > Is it possible to get some download stats from cloudfront on the various > packages so we could start making informed decisions about what is > being used? Possible? Maybe, if the logs are being collected in the bucket. But: we'd need to know the names of

Re: [Nix-dev] KDE4, KDM, and 17.03

2017-02-13 Thread Peter Hoeg
and then go through deleting old kde4. Is this too heavy handed? I'm afraid it'll frustrate a _lot_ of users. There has been a few of these lately - "are you guys using so and so". Is it possible to get some download stats from cloudfront on the various packages so we could start making

Re: [Nix-dev] KDE4, KDM, and 17.03

2017-02-13 Thread Graham Christensen
On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Vladimír Čunát wrote: > I'd personally drop any support for it in 17.03 "ben...@gmail.com" writes: > I tend to agree Great. One option is to mark all of kde4 as broken:

Re: [Nix-dev] KDE4, KDM, and 17.03

2017-02-11 Thread ben...@gmail.com
On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Vladimír Čunát wrote: > On 02/11/2017 05:22 PM, Graham Christensen wrote: > > How far can we go for 17.03? > > I'd personally drop any support for it in 17.03, *including* security > updates. Whether we do that as removal, brokenness or

Re: [Nix-dev] KDE4, KDM, and 17.03

2017-02-11 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 02/11/2017 05:22 PM, Graham Christensen wrote: > How far can we go for 17.03? I'd personally drop any support for it in 17.03, *including* security updates. Whether we do that as removal, brokenness or something seems a relatively minor detail. In any case, we should drop a line in the

[Nix-dev] KDE4, KDM, and 17.03

2017-02-11 Thread Graham Christensen
Hey NixOS Users, KDE4 and KDM haven't received regular patches in over two years now, and only receives patches for critical security issues in the core libs at this point. KDE5, as far as I and ttuegel know, is working flawlessly. Until very recently, NixOS suggested KDE4 and KDM in the