Re: KDE4/Qt4 removal from openSUSE Factory
Anton Aylward <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.suse.kde |
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| 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 The last kdelibs version was released in 2017 and is no longer maintained, 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 Qt4 is also no longer maintained upstream.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. > > > -- There's a tendency today to absolve individuals of moral responsibility and treat them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that, you pay with your soul. -Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]