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On Sunday 02 April 2006 22:33, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> This is a recent change, and usually someone replies with "why not a |
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> month?". |
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This is simply not true or we have very different ideas of the meaning of |
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recent. The vast majority of "last rites" emails from 2005 had slated |
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removals of one week or less. |
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> It's not a requirement. It's a courtesy to your users and fellow |
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> developers, at least some of whom would very much appreciate it if you |
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> left things for ~four weeks rather than ~one. |
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I don't see the necessity for devs and users would have to look at the |
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package.mask file regularly to get the information that a package is masked. |
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If Portage would be that smart to spit out the relevant information on |
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emerge --sync, a longer period would probably make sense. |
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Carsten |
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