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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:46:26
Message-Id: 20100113064536.0b875e7c@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-nntp/inn by "Tomáš Chvátal"
1 On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:51:28 +0100
2 Tomáš Chvátal <scarabeus@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > > you need to fix your filter then. an "open bug" is not an
5 > > acceptable reason for masking a package. if you're going to clean
6 > > a package, you need to research actual reasons to mask & punt.
7 > > -mike
8 > Dont be joking,
9 > Your approach of adding new packages to main tree is that you add them
10 > with empty metadata.xml and we have to remove them in few years
11 > because they are steaming piles of bugs...
12
13 Er, say whah? Flinging mud?
14
15 Mike's got a very valid point, in that you don't mask a package because
16 of an open bug. All the rest of what you added below is about
17 --as-needed, which doesn't apply to the bug in case and which is still
18 no valid reason to mask a package anyway. End of discussion, plz?
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20
21 Yah,
22 jer