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From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:47:13
Message-Id: e117dbb91003121546t5bf8cb9eldd6a5ab0cf29c4a7@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages by Ryan Hill
1 On 13 March 2010 00:07, Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:33:12 +0100
3 > Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
4 >> Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. That's
5 >> why we have a treecleaners project.
6 >
7 > The treecleaners project is tasked with keeping these packages working, and
8 > removing them only if there is no other alternative.
9
10 No, treecleaners is tasked with either finding a maintainer for those
11 packages, or removing them from the tree.
12
13 Cheers,
14 --
15 Ben de Groot
16 Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
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