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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:51:05
Message-Id: kinouq$v8a$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime by Matt Turner
1 On 24/03/13 22:25, Matt Turner wrote:
2 > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
3 >> And what if it breaks again in the future? Should we go over the same
4 >> discussion again?
5 >
6 > Can't this be restated as "Shouldn't we tree clean it now since it
7 > could have bugs in the future?"? Tree cleaning packages over future
8 > hypothetical bugs seems like bad policy.
9
10 Well, even though I wasn't happy to see tvtime getting tree-cleaned, I
11 understand that Gentoo doesn't work with hired packagers. This isn't
12 Ubuntu or RedHat Linux. Gentoo packagers don't maintain what they're
13 not interested in.
14
15 In the end it's another program that will end up in my ~/bin directory.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>