Re: [gentoo-dev] masking and removing *coin packages

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2016 10:42:14 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > Also there's some debate in IRC about whether or not these packages
> > should be lastrited or dropped to maintainer-needed.  These forks are
> > not in good shape upstream, so I think it makes better sense to
> > p.mask/lastrite and then move them to the graveyard overlay when I
> > remove them from the tree in 30 days.
> >
>
> IMO the criteria should be whether they work or not.  Not whether
> upstream is more or less active.
>
> If they're blockers on other work, by all means cull them.  However,
> if the biggest problem with them is that they're using a few inodes in
> the repo, then they should probably stay.
 
+1

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko