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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:17:46
Message-Id: 20111011194121.0b0a7058@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: media-gfx/pngcrush by Markos Chandras
1 On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:09:21 +0100
2 Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
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7 > On 10/11/11 04:00, Ryan Hill wrote:
8 > > On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:33:15 +0300 Samuli Suominen
9 > > <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
10 > >
11 > >> It's not like fastened lastriting hasn't happened before. I
12 > >> question your motives in picking this particular one. It's not
13 > >> like I expected cookies for the time I've put into this porting
14 > >> effort, but not this "attack" either.
15 > >
16 > > Then stop trying to remove packages that have an active maintainer.
17 > > I could have sworn that was written down somewhere.
18 > >
19 > >
20 > Isn't this the same situation with gcc stabilizations? Once the
21 > timeframe for fixing broken packages with e.g gcc-4.5 is passed, the
22 > remaining broken packages will be gone.
23
24 Absolutely not. They aren't even masked. There are usually a few niche
25 packages that can't be fixed but are in use. People can switch to a previous
26 version if they ever have to rebuild them.
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30 fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it makes no sense
31 toolchain, wxwidgets but i'll take it free anytime
32 @ gentoo.org EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662

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