On Saturday, 16 August 2025 21:10:39 British Summer Time Philip Webb wrote: > 250804 Andreas Sturmlechner wrote: > > # Alexey Sokolov <[email protected]> (2025-08-03) > > # Inactive upstream, stuck on Qt5. Suggested alternatives: > > # media-sound/strawberry, media-sound/amarok. > > # Removal on 2025-09-03. Bug #960012. > > media-sound/clementine > > I was somewhat shocked by this announcement, which came out of the blue. > I've been happily using Clementine with Qt 6 for a few months > & haven't encountered any problems ;
Probably you also have Qt5 packages still on your system if Clementine depends on them? > also Amarok is itself masked ; Your could keyword it if you want to try it and if it works with no problems post a request in BGO to stabilise it. > apparently, there are limitations to Strawberry. I understand Strawberry is seeking to be a slimlined fork to remain maintainable due to lack of devs. They welcome contributions from fellow travellers to enhance their code. > I looked up the bug & see that there are challenges for developers, > but they don't seem to be insuperable to a user at least. > I've waited a while for others to jump in, but no-one has commented. Many people consume their media via streaming these days, perhaps there is no longer a large enough user base on desktop based local media players to attract attention. > What do I have to do to go over to Strawberry ? > -- do I simply unmerge the old one & emerge the new one ? > Is that enough or do I have to do anything else to make it all work ? I have not used clementine for many years ago. From what I recall it was rather unstable in its early days. I would assume you just emerge Strawberry, if only to try it out. Finally, if you use the Plasma desktop, there are a couple of KDE media applications you could try out (Elisa and Juk), on top of all the various player applications under media-sound/ in portage.
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