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a) do you require your repository to be listed before 'opt'?
No, because I have duplicated qt3 into the kde repository. Simone once asked me to keep that port in the kde repo because he was going to drop it from opt, but I guess he forgot to do it. Right now there is an outdated version of qt3 in opt and the latest version in kde, so having opt before kde would give you the old version. There is also a problem in the opt evrsion that prevents some qt apps from building, I just tried to build twinkle (from contrib) using qt3 from opt and it failed. Since there are some apps in contrib and opt depending on qt3, I think this port should be in opt and not in the kde repo. Simone, what do you think? If you still want to give up qt3, I could maintain it.
b) do you depend on ports from contrib?
No. -- Alan