From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 14 12:24:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 661E216A4CE for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 12:24:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fillmore.dyndns.org (port-212-202-49-130.reverse.qsc.de [212.202.49.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF64143D54 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 12:24:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com) Received: from [172.16.0.2] (helo=fillmore-labs.com) by fillmore.dyndns.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34; FreeBSD) id 1BOiHm-0008Jl-4q; Fri, 14 May 2004 21:24:01 +0200 Message-ID: <40A51CCD.4030606@fillmore-labs.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 21:23:57 +0200 From: Oliver Eikemeier Organization: Fillmore Labs GmbH - http://www.fillmore-labs.com/ MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Nottebrock References: <200405141700.i4EH0gSp024041@freefall.freebsd.org> <200405142129.10156.andy@athame.co.uk> <40A51141.6000100@fillmore-labs.com> <200405142103.04809.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200405142103.04809.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 cc: FreeBSD ports cc: Andy Fawcett cc: "Michael C. Shultz" Subject: Re: x11-wm/xwmm [WAS: Possibly unbuildable ports reminder] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD ports List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 19:24:02 -0000 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