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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] virtual/x11
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:59:11
Message-Id: 20070326025621.0ee4247e@snowflake
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] virtual/x11 by arfrever
1 On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:45:38 +0200
2 arfrever <arfrever@××.pl> wrote:
3 > "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <msterret@××××.com> napisał:
4 > > I commented this out of package.mask. x11-libs/fox-1.2.6-r2 still
5 > > uses it. Need to fix that up before masking it.
6 >
7 > These not numerous packages still using virtual/x11 can be fixed
8 > after masking it. Almost nobody uses them. Masking virtual/x11 could
9 > urge some developers to fix these packages.
10
11 Breaking the tree, and thus end user systems, is not an acceptable way
12 of getting people to fix things. It doesn't make any difference to
13 developers who haven't fixed their packages, only to users.
14
15 --
16 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] virtual/x11 Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>