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I've p.masked dev-libs/publib and it's pending removal in a week from now if |
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nobody says anything. |
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This library was added in 2002 but seems like nothing is actually making use |
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of it anyway. Some of the functions are broken. There's no more an active |
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upstream, and the Debian patches we're using are unmaintained, too. |
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It could have been used to provide missing functions on non-glibc systems, but |
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it's difficult to handle, and GNULib[1] can be used instead (it's not in |
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portage, but if it will ever needed by Gentoo/ALT projects I can add it to |
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gentoo-alt overlay and then to the main portage when needed. |
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publib was added for the pure sake of it, without a required dependency. It |
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seems not to be used by anything useful at the moment. |
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I'd rather avoid having a dead piece of code lying around and maybe screwing |
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things around. |
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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 |
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