Quote: nicolas vigier wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 11:20
> The COMPELLING reason has already been said. It's because we don't > want > to have software built on a deprecated library in the repository. That is not a compelling reason as Xavier's post showed for example. Having a qt3-devel packages does not automatically imply having packages based on it in the official repos. Also is there an official rule somewhere that specifies: "because we don't want to have software built on a deprecated library in the repository" or is this simply an arbitrary rule that restricts freedoms of users and other packagers? In the early days a 'contrib' repo was suggested for not officially supported packages (I was for that idea too), this would be a good situation where a 'contrib' repo would solve this matter for everyone. -- Mageia ML Forum Gateway: http://mageia.linuxtech.net/forum/
