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On Thursday 08 December 2005 21:10, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with |
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> a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? |
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No, it's to remove the packages that have problems, that requires dependencies |
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that are badly broken (transcode 0.6 is a pain to manage, does not work with |
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GCC4 and it's not easily fixable, and upstream moved to transcode 1), that |
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requires maintenance and nobody can give it, and that might be replaced by |
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other programs with way less troubles... |
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If you want to maintain that, no need for it to be removed... atm it's going |
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to be unmaintained in the tree, full of problems, and requires us to not plan |
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of dropping transcode 0.6. |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ |
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Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE |