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From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] RFC: Graveyard project
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:39:21
Message-Id: 511D91BC.3020107@flameeyes.eu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] RFC: Graveyard project by Rich Freeman
1 On 15/02/2013 02:18, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > Ah, I always thought of overlays as places where apps tend to reside,
3 > but of course you could have glibc in there for all we know... Good
4 > point...
5
6 Welcome to the life of your average Gentoo ebuild maintainer.
7
8 > I'd think that this would be less of an issue for something like
9 > sunset, but perhaps this is something the maintainers should keep in
10 > mind.
11
12 What I'm afraid of is automagic dependencies, especially for obsolete
13 libraries that are basically dead. Yes it's still a valid bug, but it's
14 also a waste of time to debug for the most part.
15
16 --
17 Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
18 flameeyes@×××××××××.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] RFC: Graveyard project Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>