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On Sun, 2013-02-03 at 06:07 +0100, Vaeth wrote: |
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> So this 30 day delay will enable these people to get involved, |
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> especially for all the packages which were removed in the last years? |
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> Now it is apparent that an archive for dropped packages (in the |
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> form of keeping masked packages or some other form) is not needed: |
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> I want to join your club with the time machine! |
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If you want an automatic archive for dropped packages, MAKE ONE! Get a |
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domain name, rent a VPS with lots of disc space, subscribe a mail |
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account to gentoo-dev, write a small script that parses last-rites |
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announcements and automatically archives the affected ebuilds and their |
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sources. |
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You have to realize that there are only three ways to get something done |
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in the non-commercial open-source space: |
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1. convince someone else that it's fun; |
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2. convince someone else that it's important; or |
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3. do it yourself. |
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We the Gentoo developers strongly believe that this project is not fun |
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and not important. So if want dropped packages to be automatically |
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archived, I suggest that you volunteer for the job of automatically |
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archiving them. |
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-Alexandre. |
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