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From: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@g.o>
To: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, releng@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] LiveCD Project disbanding: packages up for grabs
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2020 00:24:05
Message-Id: 20201106162350.272b79e3@moya.linuxfreak.ca
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] LiveCD Project disbanding: packages up for grabs by Matt Turner
1 On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 16:09:37 -0500
2 Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > The LiveCD project is only me now, which isn't much of a project, so
5 > I'm putting these packages up for grabs. livecd@ is co-maintainer on a
6 > few others that aren't listed.
7 >
8 > app-misc/livecd-tools
9 >
10 > - Releng@ will take this
11 >
12 > sys-libs/libkudzu
13 > sys-apps/hwdata-gentoo
14 > sys-apps/hwsetup
15 >
16 > - These are used on the Live CDs, but I don't know if they actually
17 > do anything useful.
18 > - Releng@ will take them with the understanding that I might remove
19 > them from the tree.
20 >
21 > dev-python/pyparted
22 > dev-util/dialog
23 > sys-block/parted
24 > sys-fs/squashfs-tools
25 > x11-themes/gentoo-artwork-livecd
26
27 Please do not remove pyparted, parted or squashfs-tools these are most
28 certainly useful. I will maintain them if RelEng does not want them.
29
30 I should not that I believe that dev-util/dialog may be required for
31 "make menuconfig" in the kernel to work, so this is likely a rather
32 important package as well.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] LiveCD Project disbanding: packages up for grabs Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>