On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 03:40:25PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > The rationale for keeping qt4 in the archive for me (same for gtk1, > gtk2, etc.) is so that people could continue to build or run > out-of-distro legacy software far into the future. It saddens me that I > could very likely run an arbitrary decade-old win32 program on a modern > Windows machine (although not win16 anymore!) but the rapid churn in > Linux land means we have no such similar story. Just bundle the libs, as you would do on Windows, and you'll be fine (wrt Qt, not wrt libc, but that's a separate problem). After all, running software compiled on a different system was never fully supported even if the dependencies were available. -- WBR, wRAR
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