From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 21 11:46:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 042F51065679 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:46:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF7B68FC1B for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:46:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mr17.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.37]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 21 Jul 2012 07:46:04 -0400 Received: from smtp04.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp04.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.104]) by mr17.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 4.3.4-GA) with ESMTP id BPD81289; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 07:46:04 -0400 Received: from 209-6-86-84.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.86.84]) by smtp04.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 21 Jul 2012 07:46:04 -0400 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <20490.38523.631932.783945@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 07:46:03 -0400 To: Oliver Heesakkers In-Reply-To: <7505026.qsY6p1LcQn@pcoliver.heesakkers.info> References: <20486.55903.34769.952614@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <7505026.qsY6p1LcQn@pcoliver.heesakkers.info> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr17.lnh.mail.rcn.net) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libreoffice fails to build X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:46:05 -0000 Oliver Heesakkers writes: > Please keep in mind that Qt3, KDE3 and all their accompanying > ports (which AFAICT includes arts) are dying a slow and agonizing > death as was announced a little over a year ago: > http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2011-July/011076.html The key words here being "slow and agonizing". Until someone actually provides {Qt, KDE}4 compliant replacements all the way up the dependency tree, there are necessary/useful/entertaining programs that need version 3. Robert Huff