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A few weeks back I filed a bug (since closed, but not resolved to my |
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satisfaction) on the premature removal of mm-sources and the fact that |
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no stable version was left in portage. This had the effect of breaking |
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a number of perfectly working systems and leaving no alternative but to |
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move to another kernel as the masked versions did not work (at the time) |
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- a major hassle. Without a kernel of that package in portage, packages |
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that depended on the installed kernel to build broke and couldnt be |
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installed. |
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I for one would like to see a policy for this as I feel that mm-sources |
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was done at the whim of a dev who was looking at his future, and wasnt |
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willing to consider the user base, leaving quite a number of us |
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stranded. His justification seemed to be that mm-sources should be |
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considered a dev package, so I should not have bothered - bug closed. |
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BillK |
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On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 20:48, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 22:17, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > Barry Shaw said: |
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> > > Is there any policy/ideas/consensus among developers about how long a |
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