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On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:08:35 +0100 |
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Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Am 14.02.2013 00:07, schrieb Brian Dolbec: |
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> > On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 20:46 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> >> Am 13.02.2013 20:19, schrieb Michael Sterrett: |
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> >>> # Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@g.o> (13 Feb 2013) |
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> >>> # No longer licensed for sale upstream. |
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> >>> # Masked for removal on 20130315. |
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> >>> games-strategy/x2 |
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> >>> games-strategy/x2-demo |
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> >>> |
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> >> |
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> >> Sure, I cannot buy it anymore. But what about people who already own it |
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> >> and would like to re-emerge it or migrate it between PCs? |
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> >> Regards, |
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> >> Florian Philipp |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> > |
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> > Easy, just copy the ebuild and any patches in the files subdir to a |
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> > local overlay. |
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> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml |
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> > That is one of the reasons things are masked for at least 30 days before |
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> > removal. To give affected people some time to deal with it however they |
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> > want. |
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> > We can't be expected to keep old stuff around forever :/ |
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> Which brings us back to the old discussion on what good it does for one |
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> person to do the work of masking and removing and N persons to do the |
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> work of creating an overlay instead of just letting the package rot in |
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> the tree until it is actually broken. But I guess everyone's pretty |
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> tired of that discussion so let's leave it at that. |
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Or N^4 people downloading ebuilds which serve no purpose whatever. That |
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stacks faster than you think. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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