[arch-dev-public] Moving KDE3 and Gtk1 from [extra]

Eric Bélanger snowmaniscool at gmail.com
Thu May 15 10:59:17 EDT 2014


On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Alexander Rødseth <rodseth at gmail.com>wrote:

> There was a message on arch-general, noting that kiwi does not depend on
> gtk1.
>
> As I understand the situation, the holdups concerning gtk1, kdelibs3
> and qt3 are now resolved, and there is a strong consensus that moving
> these packages is a good idea. We don't want to act as upstream for
> old, unmaintained, obsolete and potentially insecure libraries.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Alexander / xyproto
>

I've just removed qt3/kdelibs3 (as well as packages depending on them) from
the repos. In the next few days, I'll check your work on imlib and see what
can be done with gtk1. This thread was started when I was inactive so I
didn't really had time to go through this earlier.


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