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On 14 March 2010 06:09, James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>>>> "BdG" == Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> writes: |
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> BdG> Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. |
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> Nonsense. That attitude only servers to harm the user base. |
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You're wrong. It serves to protect our users from potentially |
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broken and vulnerable packages. It ascertains a Quality |
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Assurance level that we and our users can be comfortable |
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with. |
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> Leaving them in does not. |
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It does, as it opens the users up to unknown security |
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vulnerabilities and increasing brokenness as bugs are |
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not addressed. |
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If Gentoo would stop caring about QA, then we'd be wasting |
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our time working on making this a better distro. |
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Cheers, |
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Ben de Groot |
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Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) |
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