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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Am 14.02.2013 00:07, schrieb Brian Dolbec: |
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>> On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 20:46 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>>> Am 13.02.2013 20:19, schrieb Michael Sterrett: |
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>>>> # Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@g.o> (13 Feb 2013) |
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>>>> # No longer licensed for sale upstream. |
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>>>> # Masked for removal on 20130315. |
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>>>> games-strategy/x2 |
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>>>> games-strategy/x2-demo |
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>>> Sure, I cannot buy it anymore. But what about people who already own it |
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>>> and would like to re-emerge it or migrate it between PCs? |
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>>> Regards, |
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>>> Florian Philipp |
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>>> |
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>> Easy, just copy the ebuild and any patches in the files subdir to a |
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>> local overlay. |
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>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml |
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>> That is one of the reasons things are masked for at least 30 days before |
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>> removal. To give affected people some time to deal with it however they |
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>> want. |
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>> We can't be expected to keep old stuff around forever :/ |
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> Which brings us back to the old discussion on what good it does for one |
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> person to do the work of masking and removing and N persons to do the |
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> work of creating an overlay instead of just letting the package rot in |
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> the tree until it is actually broken. But I guess everyone's pretty |
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> tired of that discussion so let's leave it at that. |
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I'll say the same thing I've said in the past; it doesn't look like |
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anyone in the dev community is interested in it. There is nothing |
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preventing anyone from doing it; so feel free to set it up and show us |
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up! |
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-A |
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