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On 03/24/2013 11:22 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> Markos - I'm not sure what can be done to try to better flush out |
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> user interest in taking care of packages that are on the verge of |
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> death. I'd suggest announcing pending removals before masking them, |
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> but I suspect that more often than not the only reason we get |
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> replies on -dev is that users notice the masks. Maybe the package |
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> masks could have a webpage explaining how users can help rescue |
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> packages constructively, and include a link to it in mask notices. |
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> Since I've tended to be an advocate for not masking as quickly I |
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> might go ahead and toss something together. |
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> Rich |
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The masks are sort of announcements as you have 30 days to revert that |
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decision. Users who have that package installed, will get the message |
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after the emerge --sync && emerge -uDN world cycle. If they sync less |
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often (say once every 2 months) and not following any ML, then what |
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can I do? The process for rescuing a package is documented here[1] and |
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it takes about 15'' of google searching to find it. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/index.xml#doc_chap7 |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang |
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