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 whether there are replacements for > these packages and why aren't they suggested in the mask comments? See the discussion in the relevant bugs and on the forums. For qcad see bug #284896 and for xdrawchem bug #299588. Glunarclock is unrelated. > b) If one is forced to run Qt3 in order to support these older packages, is > there *good* documentation on how to do this (and why isn't this > suggested in the mask comments)? Because package.mask is not the right place for documentation. It does refer to bug #283429, the tracker bug for the Qt3 mask and removal. This in turn refers to our announcement [1] which mentions that Qt3 and packages depending on it will remain available in the community-maintained kde-sunset overlay. > So before there is a rush to remove ebuilds it should be asked > whether it is possible to produce a static build and/or whether there is a > clear path provided for the retention of "legacy" packages? There is no rush. We first announced this in July 2009 [2] and then again in December [1]. We have given every opportunity to find appropriate upgrade paths. As mentioned, users who for some reason need or want to keep using legacy packages can use the kde-sunset overlay. 1: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/msg_f295c1c2d9d70238d289de3a7ed5bf5c.xml 2: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/msg_d851e05567d538b662f34de8dfdb7316.xml Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) ______________________________________________________
