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_JusSx_ wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:36:22PM +0100, Gustavo Felisberto wrote: |
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>> A little background info: Right now there are three versions of |
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>> net-im/skype in the tree: |
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>> 1 - the 1.2 series (with a stable version) |
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>> 2- the 1.3 series also with a stable version |
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>> 3- the 1.4 series with a ~/hardmask version |
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>> Also the skype license states that we cannot mirror it's files (this |
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>> will be need later) |
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>> The 1.4 series will have a version released soon that skype wants to |
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>> become the standard stable version, it has many new features and bette= |
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>> audio quality. |
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>> I as Gentoo Dev and Skype Betatester was informed that starting on Jun= |
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>> 19th Skype will no longer provide downloads for the 1.2 and 1.3 versio= |
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n, |
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>> and that means that 1.4 will be released some time before. For Gentoo |
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>> that means that starting from the 19th users on the stable profile wil= |
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>> not be able to install skype as no files will be available from upstre= |
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am. |
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>> So the thing is, as soon as Skype releases the 1.4 stable version I'm |
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>> going to have it in tree and we need to have it tested ASAP on the |
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>> stable profile. My thing is with the time between, we will have 5 days= |
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>> tops or users will not be able to install. |
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>> Suggestions: |
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>> 1- in the 19th remove skype < 1.4 from the tree |
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>> 2- Make < 1.4 ebuilds "empty" and leave them on the tree and ewarn the= |
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>> users to use the unstable skype |
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>> The first option will trigger portage errors and prompt users to open |
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>> bugs until we have a stable 1.4, the second gives us a chance to expla= |
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>> the issue. |
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>> Any alternatives? |
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>> --=20 |
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>> Gustavo Felisberto |
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>> (HumpBack) |
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>> Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~humpback |
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>> Blog: http://blog.felisberto.net/ |
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>> ------------ |
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>> It's most certainly GNU/Linux, not Linux. Read more at |
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>> http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html . |
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> Let's remove it from portage. why should we use it? I run it for a bit = |
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> can say it's awful... it is closed-source, is not it? so I think it's |
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> better not to install it... |
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As we've established earlier, being closed-source is not sufficient |
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reason for removing any program from Portage; you should have read the |
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rest of the thread. |
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