[kde-freebsd] kde3 ports expired today

[Per olof Ljungmark]

On 2013-07-01 11:38, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 10:20:22AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>> El día Monday, July 01, 2013 a las 09:59:48AM +0200, René Ladan escribió:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the KDE3 ports (263 of them) expired today. They were marked for
>>> removal since December 30, so the plan is to remove them soon.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rene
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have (perhaps) all seen this in UPDATING and while compiling qt3*
>> ports; I think, it is not a good idea deleting the KDE3 ports (which do
>> compile) from our ports tree, while the KDE4 ports do not compile, at
>> least not on i386 architecture. See the PR's about automoc4 and others.
>>
>> Just my humble opinion
>>
>> 	matthias
>>
> 
> Problem is that kde3 is not maintained anymore upstream, not security reviews
> are performed any more etc. It has been deprecated for 6 month, and no one came
> up to:
> 1/ take maitainership of kde3
> 2/ import the maintained and supported trinity project.

While I have full respect for this decision I am another example of one
that looses his desktop...

Actually, I'm not really using KDE3, but rather xfce but with the apps
from KDE3 like konsole, kwrite, ksnapshot and a few others that I failed
to see any good replacements for.

And security, well, not sure if this is that important for a desktop? At
least we're warned.

And KDE4 is not an alternative, tried several times but gave up.

Just my two öre.

//per