[Nix-dev] Deprecated packages

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 01:00:20AM +0400, Yury G.  Kudryashov wrote:
> Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> > What is that trinity project about, that it is related to the qt3 programs
> > in nixpkgs?
> Look at their homepage.
> > 
> > Why we want to get rid of qt3?
> E.g., it fails to build against libpng-1.5.
> > What's the advantadge?
> Easier upgrades of dependencies of qt-3.x.

Ah ok. But in case of no alternative, there can be a qt3. And even an old
libpng.

> > I think I prefer it to stay.
> Could you please fix it in branches/libpng15 (probably fetching 
> patches/sources from trinity project)?

Ah now I understand about the trinity project. I saw there some kde3 things, if
I understood correctly. So, you meant the patches.

> > We have lots of other unmaintained libs or packages, that do
> > quite a good job despite that.
> I do not want to remove useful unmaintained packages. I want to remove 
> unmaintained packages that nobody use. So, add "don't remove; viric" 
> comments to packages that you're using.

Ok, done!