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Month: January 2011

Re: [trinity-devel] Adding more packages

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:28:01 -0600
> On Saturday 22 January 2011 23:04:20 Robert Xu wrote:
>
>> wow. that was a lot >_< I'll get the rest of the list done in a little
>> bit, unless someone would be willing to finish it?
>
> Can anybody please finish the list so I could to file a bugreport?
>
> About what development one can be speaking if there is no KDE3 repository
> so far which inludes all useful stuff which was developed for KDE3? Even
> when
> KDE3 was officially "alive", no distro had all that software. Some distros
> had A,B, some B,C, and the third ones has A,C. OpenSUSE never included as
> much
> KDE3 software as KDE3 repo includes now,  after the death of KDE3 was
> officially proclaimed. And the total amount of software ever made for KDE3
> is
> so huge that this repository can be expanded for years without any new
> software developed.
>
> I would like to see Tim's comment.

That maintaining all that software is too much for this project to handle?

I will need to see some triage on that list to weed out programs that:
a.) Have no use whatsoever on modern systems
b.) Have been fully replaced by more modern software
c.) Rely on old unmaintained libraries with no modern replacement

Tim