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Sorry, but I feel that I must explain once more: |
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>>> When I came to Gentoo many years ago, this was a very rare problem, |
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>>> but the removal of packages has tremendously increased, and it is |
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>>> not only me who is observing this problem - there were already some |
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>>> threads in the forums, and people planning to but not coming back |
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>>> to Gentoo for this reason. |
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>> |
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>> Awesome so they could've get involved and maintain it themselves if they seen |
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>> it so crushial for their lives. |
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> |
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> Agreed. That's why there are last rights announcements with a 30 day |
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> delay before the package is actually removed. |
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So this 30 day delay will enable these people to get involved, |
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especially for all the packages which were removed in the last years? |
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Now it is apparent that an archive for dropped packages (in the |
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form of keeping masked packages or some other form) is not needed: |
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I want to join your club with the time machine! |
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> In a nutshell, the people complaining about removals should stop |
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> complaining and start volunteering to maintain either the packages |
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Yep! That's the right attitude: Give the people 30 days (even those |
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people who are currently not at Gentoo for whatever reason) to know |
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years in advance all the software they might ever need and tell them, |
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if in doubt, just to maintain hundreds of packages! |
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It is *of course* their fault if they do not! |
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Later, if they need a package, you can blame them that they have |
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not voluntereered for all these packages they possibly might have needed, |
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because years ago they had 30 days time to think about it (even longer |
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if they took the time and resources to backup on their machines all |
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tarballs of all packages). |
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To be serious: If somebody *has* the resources to backup all dropped |
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tarballs, he should please donate these resources to Gentoo, because |
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Gentoo nowadays definitely cannot afford to waste a byte. |
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Or how else can it be explained that this idea of enabling people |
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to use previous packages if they need to is fought so intensively? |
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All it costs is some amount of disk/mirror space. |
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Or is it really that you *want* to blame the user and put |
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pressure on him to maintain packages? |
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Strange that as soon as user's resources are required, Gentoo's |
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attitude was always quite the opposite: E.g. it just *always* installs |
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bash completion or systemd files (or previously also static libraries, |
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although I must admit that the situation for the latter was now |
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improved, fortunately) - the user must care about cleaning |
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for himself if he does not want to waste resources. |
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Sure, both is an admissible attitude - only the user is responsible |
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for everything. |
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It is just: *I* want to contribute only to a distribution which |
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also cares somewhat about the users. |
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Maybe some developers feel the same, but it is of course up to you |
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to decide this. |
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Regards |
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Martin |