Re: KDE4 & Qt4 removal notice

On Monday 2019-11-04 14:59, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
>> The following 30 packages are going to be REMOVED:
>> 
>>   breeze4-style kde4-filesystem kdebase4-runtime
>> kdebase4-workspace-libs kdelibs4 kdelibs4-branding-upstream
>> kdelibs4-core libaccounts-glib0 libattica0_4 libbreezecommon4-5
>> libdav1d2 libdbusmenu-qt2 libdvdread4 libkactivities6 libkde4
>> libkdecore4
>>   libksuseinstall1 libldb1 libldb1-32bit libphonon4 libpolkit-qt-1-1
>> libqt4 libqt4-devel libqt4-linguist libqt4-qt3support libqt4-sql
>> libqt4-sql-sqlite libqt4-x11 phonon-backend-gstreamer sni-qt
>> 
>> I'm not using KDE4. But I have some Python programs that use QT4. They
>> will eventually be updated. But until then, on systems where QT4 is
>> already installed, removing QT4 seems strict. No problem that it goes
>> away in the build system and can no longer be installed. But removing
>> it from installed systems may be a surprise to many.
>
>Yes, that's one drawback of the way TW handles things, I've been bitten by
>that several times already.  Packages that no longer are in the repo, and are
>not requested by any other package, get removed.

Well if nothing requires it, you should not notice it going again.
Except when that "requires" is a factual-level requires that has failed to be
carried over to a package-level requires by some maintainer in the software
chain.
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