[csw-maintainers] Drop koffice_gcc ?

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi folks,

Am 21.12.2011 um 15:46 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
> Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:
>> Am 21.12.2011 um 13:04 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
>>> Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:
>>>> I am redoing some of the baselibs for ImageMagick and would like to drop one
>>>> old package (the only one requirung legacy ilmbase libs):
>>>> koffice_gcc
>>>> I don't see that this is going to be updated in the future as desktop Solaris is
>>>> pretty much dead.
>>>> 
>>>> Comments?
>>> 
>>> Nothing against dropping the package. However, I don't see what has this
>>> to do with the desktop environment. Maybe there is something to clarify
>>> in what you/we understand by "desktop environment".
>> 
>> I meant applications that are mainly useful if you are using Solaris for your
>> desktop. An office application I would say is in this category, but e.g. not
>> the gtk Wireshark GUI, which can be useful even on a server for debugging
>> purposes.
> 
> Thank you. That is more precise.
> 
> However, I can use a GUI enabled application as kOffice in the same case
> as Wireshark isn't it.
> 
> Anyhow, just drop the beast if there is no maintainer for it.

Looks like it is going a bit bigger than I had anticipated: the large CSWkdegcc
package depended on koffice_gcc, thus my removal broke a dependency. I would
like to remove the other old KDE stuff also, but as there are quite some packages
I would like to bring this to maintainers@ first. It is specifically about the
package dependencies here:
  http://www.opencsw.org/packages/CSWkdegcc/

Best regards

  -- Dago

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