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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due iluxa retirement
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:17:35
Message-Id: CAAr7Pr_Zq+H8KYjR+he7+jz7+==yBeqN4Ktk=9QK9+po2+JNeg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due iluxa retirement by Samuli Suominen
1 On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 03/19/2012 11:00 PM, David Leverton wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On 19 March 2012 06:05, Samuli Suominen<ssuominen@g.o>  wrote:
5 >>>
6 >>> dev-cpp/cppserv would need working dev-cpp/sptk and we have none:
7 >>>
8 >>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402149#c9
9 >>>
10 >>> the only working versions got marked as "obsolete" by upstream due to
11 >>> "undisclosed reasons" whatever that means
12 >>>
13 >>
14 >> Not that I personally care, but it seems like this could be "solved"
15 >> by just removing fltk support, rather than nuking it completely.
16 >>
17 >
18 > don't think we should be "clinging on" the unmaintained packages that badly
19 > from general overview of the sptk homepage, the whole point of the package
20 > seems to be around fltk (and thus, X)
21 >
22 > and from broader view... sometimes it seems the politics around package
23 > removal has become a burden, rather than a tool
24 >
25
26 What politics?
27
28 -A