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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping localepurge
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:20:32
Message-Id: 20120130091901.GA3436@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping localepurge by Mike Frysinger
1 120129 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Sunday 29 January 2012 00:01:50 Philip Webb wrote:
3 >> Below is the output from 'localepurge' after this week's system update.
4 >> Please don't drop it till 'should' does = 'does'.
5 > the vast majority of that output comes from like 3 or 4 packages.
6
7 All of it comes from 6 packages which I recently installed/updated :
8 evince gdk-pix-buf rekonq xkeyboard-config gnome-doc-utils sane-backends
9 The total rubbish cleaned out for these 6 was > 9 MB .
10 The last 3 belong to major projects -- X Gnome Sane -- ,
11 which suggests that other pkgs they manage may suffer the same defect.
12
13 > file bugs if you want things to actually get fixed.
14
15 No, that's not the way it should be handled.
16 Filing bugs -- 6 of them in this case -- is no guarantee of attention even,
17 let alone action to fix the problem. Moreover, if it's fixable by Gentoo,
18 the dev involved should do it as a matter of course without needing a bug.
19
20 There is a perfectly effective script which cleans up the mess
21 & the only problem with it seems to be temporary lack of a maintainer,
22 who is not essential anyway if there's nothing which needs fixing
23 & should not be difficult to replace with a simple request for a volunteer.
24
25 Please leave 'localepurge' where it is.
26
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping localepurge Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping localepurge Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>