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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:30:22
Message-Id: 1535653805.1078.1.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash by Andrew Savchenko
1 On Wed, 2018-08-29 at 12:01 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
2 > On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 03:20:31 +0200 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
3 > wrote:
4 > > # Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@g.o> (29 Aug 2015)
5 > > # Masked for removal in 30 days. Multiple build failures. Upstream inactive.
6 > > # (bugs #321017, #581284, #588692, #602786, #649006, #654140)
7 > > www-plugins/gnash
8 >
9 >
10 > Is there any replacement available? AFAIK no, at least among free
11 > software. And there still many sites which require flash to work.
12 >
13 > So maybe mask it, but not remove?
14 >
15
16 Maybe it's time you realize that if you want something to stay, then you
17 need to actually *take it* and *fix it*. Keeping clearly broken stuff
18 so that every user could try jumping through a few hoops to build it has
19 no value.
20
21 --
22 Best regards,
23 Michał Górny

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