Re: KDE4/Qt4 removal from openSUSE Factory

Anton Aylward <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.kde
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2019-03-28 9:49 a.m., Christophe Giboudeaux wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Short version:
> KDE4 is dead and will be removed shortly from openSUSE Factory.
> Qt4 is dead and shall be removed as soon as possible from openSUSE Factory.
> 
> Long version:
> The last kdelibs version was released in 2017 and is no longer maintained,
> Qt4 is also no longer maintained upstream.
> 
> To avoid keeping zombies with security issues, it's time to kill the kdelibs4 
> based packages but also the Qt4 based ones.
> 
> A couple delete requests for KDE4 packages are currently being processes and 
> more will follow.
> kdelibs4 will be the last one to go and after that, we'll remove packages not 
> present in Leap from the KDE: tree.

So: I try to remocve that and it cascades...
# zypper rm kdelibs4
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following 56 packages are going to be REMOVED:
  GimpResourcesThumbnailer akonadi amarok amarok-lang audex audex-lang baloo_kcm
  kaffeine kcm-servicemenus kde-thumbnailer-msoole kde-thumbnailer-ooxml
  kde4-kgreeter-plugins kdeartwork4-colorschemes kdeartwork4-decorations
  kdeartwork4-styles kdebase4-nsplugin kdebase4-runtime
  kdebase4-workspace-addons   kdebase4-workspace-liboxygenstyle
  kdebase4-workspace-libs kdelibs4 kdelibs4-branding-openSUSE kdepasswd kdepim4
  kdepim4-runtime kdepimlibs4 kdiff3 kdm kdnssd kget kmag kmousetool kmymoney
  kmymoney-doc kmymoney-lang konsole4-part korganizer kplayer kreversi kscd
  kvkbd kwalletmanager kwin libkcddb4 libkcompactdisc4 plasmoid-folderview
  polka polkit-kde-agent-1 python-kde4 python-kde4-doc python-kde4-khtml
  python-kde4-knewstuff python-kde4-phonon python-kde4-plasma qtcurve-kde4
  sweeper

56 packages to remove.

Quite a few of those I have no "5" versions of.

> 
> Qt4's fate shall be the same. If you maintain packages still using Qt4, please 
> check if Qt5-based versions exist, if the Qt dependency is mandatory and/or if 
> these packages are still useful.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> The KDE team.
> 
> 
> 


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