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| From: | "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-dev] Re: Please stop useless removals | ||
| Date: | Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:20:31 | ||
| Message-Id: | 510BA4ED.9030405@flameeyes.eu | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: Please stop useless removals (was: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-arcade/bitefusion) by Rich Freeman |
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| 1 | On 01/02/2013 12:11, Rich Freeman wrote: |
| 2 | > I do think it is a loss for Gentoo if we start removing packages |
| 3 | > simply because they don't change (which is all a dead upstream means - |
| 4 | > it isn't always a bad thing). |
| 5 | |
| 6 | The problem is that a package that doesn't change _will_ bitrot. Full stop. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Trying to pretend that the problem does not exist, that an unmaintained |
| 9 | package is just as fine as a maintained one is stupid and shortsighted, |
| 10 | and explains why I have 1600 bugs open... |
| 11 | |
| 12 | -- |
| 13 | Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes |
| 14 | flameeyes@×××××××××.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please stop useless removals | Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please stop useless removals | Michael Weber <xmw@g.o> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please stop useless removals | Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> |