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From: Mark Shields <laebshade@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild hacking howto
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:45:23
Message-Id: AANLkTinZxj3hJWKisCKq=1OaEHJdDxqXCYaJsphK1aDh@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild hacking howto by Dale
1 On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > Mick wrote:
4 >
5 >>
6 >> Not related to the OP's question, but couldn't stop myself from asking:
7 >>
8 >> Why is/was webmin dropped from portage?
9 >>
10 >> I saw bug 348432 for webmin-1.530, but other than offering an ebuild it
11 >> didn't
12 >> say.
13 >>
14 >>
15 >
16 > From gentoo-dev:
17 >
18 > # Diego E. Pettenņ<flameeyes@g.o> (10 Aug 2010)
19 > # on behalf of QA team
20 > #
21 > # Breaks about any QA policy regarding not touching
22 > # live filesystem as it writes to LVM configuration,
23 > # cron configuration, current-running kernel modules, RPM
24 > # library, ...
25 > #
26 > # Removal on 2010-10-09
27 > app-admin/webmin
28 >
29 > That help?
30 >
31 > Dale
32 >
33 > :-) :-)
34 >
35 >
36 Not going to beat a dead horse, but that is exactly one of the things it's
37 supposed to do. The program itself works great, it just doesn't meet the
38 requirements of the Gentoo devs.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild hacking howto Mike Gilbert <floppymaster@×××××.com>