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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: mark kget obsolete?
From:       Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer () kde ! org>
Date:       2016-04-25 8:56:03
Message-ID: 2380688.J4HthsbOAt () lenovo
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On Montag, 25. April 2016 07:58:04 CEST Luigi Toscano wrote:
> Il 25 aprile 2016 03:40:33 CEST, Nick Shaforostoff <shafff@ukr.net> ha 
scritto:
> >distro packagers note that libktorrent for kf5 conflicts with the one
> >for kde4, which is needed for kget.
> >
> >kget for kf5 is in a semi-ported state now, and i wonder if anyone uses
> >it at all. for example it has konqueror integration, but hey who uses
> >konqueror nowadays? chromium, firefox and qupzilla (the most wayland
> >friendly btw) have their own download managers.
> >
> >so i suggest either announce kget as being obsolete or finish its kf5
> >porting (i.e. find someone who could scratch his own itch doing that).
> 
> Or why don't you make the new version of the library co-installable?

Why?
Either kget gets ported to KF5, or it's dead anyway. We should not tolerate 
applications hanging in a transition forever.
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