[Nix-dev] deprecating KDE3

Eelco Dolstra e.dolstra at tudelft.nl
Tue Sep 20 22:40:55 CEST 2011


Hi,

On 09/20/2011 10:09 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:

>> kde3.kdebase does not compile, and I see no sense in fixing this.
>>
>> AFAIK (sorry, have no prooflink) Qt3 has known bugs, including security
>> holes. We have two ways:
>>   * Remove Qt3.
>>   * Get sources from, e.g., trinity project.
>>
>> I'm for the first variant. If there is anybody using kde3, tell me.
>> Otherwise I'll remove qt3/kde3 in 2 weeks.
>
> wait wait! :)
> For me, kcachegrind is an important paackage. It wants qt3 and kde3.kdelibs.

That's an old kcachegrind that can be removed as well.  The current 
version is kde47.kcachegrind (part of kdesdk).

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