Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò schrieb: > As per summary, net-im/kopete is going away (again). > For a while upstrem released some versions out of the KDE release cycle > (0.12_alpha through 0.12.2), but now 0.12.3 was merged again inside > kdenetwork-3.5.5, so the point of having it in net-im is gone again. > > As I've heard the most foolish requests about this, I'll be masking it for > good. kde-base/kopete has already all the changes I did to net-im/kopete in > the past months backported, so there's no regression in moving to it now. > A user just brought one reason to my attention why it might be a good idea to keep this around separate from kdenetwork: kde-base/kopete-3.5.5 depends on the whole KDE installation being 3.5.5, while users who run stable may want to have their stable KDE installation and only kopete ~amd64. kde-base/kopete-3.5.5 depends on kdelibs-3.5.5 which in turn means your whole KDE installation has to be 3.5.5, while the current net-im/kopete may also be installed with older KDE versions.
Not sure if this is a good enough reason to keep the package in portage, but it's something that should be taken into consideration for those running a stable gentoo...
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