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From: "Fernando J. Pereda" <ferdy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:36:42
Message-Id: 20061031172831.GB5468@ferdyx.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees by Jakub Moc
1 On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 06:18:26PM +0100, Jakub Moc wrote:
2 > Sure I did... Could you tell me why should we accumulate broken and
3 > vulnerable junk in the tree for years? (Outdated ebuild A depends on
4 > junky outdated ebuild B which depends on crappy, unsupported ebuilds C,
5 > D and E which... )
6
7 Thats not the maintainer's problem but the Arch Team's problem so they
8 are the ones that decide what to do.
9
10 > Either keyword it in a reasonable time or you'll lose the keyword, damn
11 > simple... Can't do it in X months? Sorry, too bad for your arch, the
12 > package is gone and users will rant (or they won't, and then you don't
13 > need the keywords in the first place).
14
15 No. Arch Teams manage their keywords the way _they_ want not the way YOU
16 or others that don't work on arch teams want.
17
18 It is actually *that* simple.
19
20 - ferdy
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23 Fernando J. Pereda Garcimartín
24 Gentoo Developer (Alpha,net-mail,mutt,git)
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