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Doug Goldstein schrieb: |
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> Just an announcement that app-emulation/qemu-kvm will be pkgmove'd to |
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> app-emulation/qemu at some point this week. The app-emulation/qemu |
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> ebuilds will effectively die and be replaced by the |
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> app-emulation/qemu-kvm ebuilds. I've brought this up before and there |
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> was a bunch of rabble about "keep our pristine qemu ebuilds!!!". The |
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> fact of the matter is that the app-emulation/qemu just isn't getting |
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> the same maintenance care that app-emulation/qemu-kvm is. I've really |
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> only got the bandwidth to handle one at a time. Additionally this will |
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> bring us inline with a few other distros use of qemu as they're really |
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> building their binaries from qemu-kvm. |
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Is such a takeover really necessary? If there is no maintainer for |
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app-emulation/qemu and it is broken, lastrite it. That other distros |
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pretend to install qemu while actually installing qemu-kvm doesn't make |
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it the Right Thing™. |
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Best regards, |
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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