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Abhay Kedia wrote: |
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> I am involved in this thread since its very beginning but looks like I am not |
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> being able to understand the problems. Would you please be kind enough to |
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> enumerate the issues discussed in this thread that warrant complete removal |
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> of Skype (rather than masking it) from the tree? |
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We have a policy that ebuilds should be in the tree for at least 30 days |
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before we mark them stable. Skype uses funny license that forbids us to |
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mirror the "installer file". Skype wants to remove that older file from |
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their mirrors in less than 30 days after they release a new version. |
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Current Gentoo "stable" would be unistallable. New version can't be |
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marked as stable because it won't have been properly tested yet. |
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Users will see that stuff that used to work for them is broken now. |
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That's a regression that could have been avoided if Skype wasn't marked |
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stable. |
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It could be interesting to evaluate a new rule "fetch/mirror restricted |
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package can't be marked stable" :). |
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Cheers, |
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-jkt |
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cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth |
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