Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 21:23:57 +0200 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm@inbox.lv> Subject: Re: x11-wm/xwmm [WAS: Possibly unbuildable ports reminder] Message-ID: <40A51CCD.4030606@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <200405142103.04809.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <200405141700.i4EH0gSp024041@freefall.freebsd.org> <200405142129.10156.andy@athame.co.uk> <40A51141.6000100@fillmore-labs.com> <200405142103.04809.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Friday 14 May 2004 20:34, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > > >>>As far as we are concerned, it's orphaned, and if someone else wants to >>>maintain it they can. >> >>The point is: is it obsolete? Should it be removed from the ports tree? >>I guess no one has better expertise than kde@ to decide on this. > > We wanted to remove it long ago, but there was loud demand we didn't, so we > just dropped maintainership. Nobody in kde@ cares about qt23 anymore and I > myself deny any expertise about it :-). Ok, probably the load demand ebbed away in the meantime, so would anyone of kde care to mark x11-toolkits/qt23, japanese/qt23 and dependent ports as deprecated, expiration date 2004-07-14? > However, the "problem" raised by Michael is bogus: qt23 conflicts with qt3x > and a conflict isn't a bug and no grounds for removing anything either. The initial mail said: > I know I don't want QT2 on my system and assume most others feel the same way. That is what I was referring to. I noted that the package builds fine on !alpha. -Oliver
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