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

Eric Bélanger snowmaniscool at gmail.com
Tue May 20 21:03:50 EDT 2014


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Alexander Rødseth <rodseth at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> There was a message on arch-general, noting that kiwi does not depend on
>> gtk1.
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>> 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.
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>> Best regards,
>> Alexander / xyproto
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> 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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Everything is done now. glib, gtk and frinds have beed removed from the
repos. In case someone is interested, here's the packages that were removed:
glib gtk xmms
lib32-glib
lib32-gtk
dfm gdk-pixbuf manedit amidi-plug perl-xmms xmmsctrl xmms-imms xmms-pulse
xmms-volnorm


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