Re: KDE4/Qt4 removal from openSUSE Factory

Op vrijdag 29 maart 2019 00:26:30 CET schreef Anton Aylward:
> 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 The last kdelibs version was released in 2017 and is no longer maintained,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 Qt4 is also no longer maintained upstream.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.
Seems quite useless since you don't know the deps/recommenends of future 
releases

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