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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: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:13:33
Message-Id: kiq0ik$f2v$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime by Markos Chandras
1 On 24/03/13 23:12, Markos Chandras wrote:
2 >
3 > On Mar 24, 2013 8:51 PM, "Nikos Chantziaras" <realnc@×××××.com
4 > <mailto:realnc@×××××.com>> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > On 24/03/13 22:25, Matt Turner wrote:
7 > >>
8 > >> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Markos Chandras
9 > <hwoarang@g.o <mailto:hwoarang@g.o>> wrote:
10 > >>>
11 > >>> And what if it breaks again in the future? Should we go over the same
12 > >>> discussion again?
13 > >>
14 > >>
15 > >> Can't this be restated as "Shouldn't we tree clean it now since it
16 > >> could have bugs in the future?"? Tree cleaning packages over future
17 > >> hypothetical bugs seems like bad policy.
18 > >
19 > >
20 > > Well, even though I wasn't happy to see tvtime getting tree-cleaned,
21 > I understand that Gentoo doesn't work with hired packagers. This isn't
22 > Ubuntu or RedHat Linux. Gentoo packagers don't maintain what they're
23 > not interested in.
24 > >
25 > > In the end it's another program that will end up in my ~/bin directory.
26 > >
27 > >
28 >
29 > Why? Don't you want to work with me and maintain it together? Why keep
30 > it working just for you?
31
32 I can do that. Though the current ebuild seems to work just fine.
33 There's no "alsa" USE flag and it builds with automake 1.13.

Replies

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