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 others. The decision from the qt project to remove qt3 and all its dependencies from the tree is suboptimal to say the least. A library project should be at the service of those using the library, not dictating to those using it. 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 for maintainers of packages who need it. I doubt this will happen as this could have been done a long time ago, but it's never too late. Denis.
