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On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:16 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> and if there are no bugs filed ? this sort of stance is like the "lets remove |
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> packages from portage because upstream is dead" ... it benefits no one |
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Sure it does, in my experience unmaintained packages tend to depend on |
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unmaintained libs, which depend on other libs in older slotted versions. |
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Usually parts of such a dependency chain have open bugs, that have been |
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open for years and that are not going to be solved by anyone, because |
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frankly nobody cares about that old crap, but isn't bothered enough to |
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try and remove it and all of its reverse deps and take the flak for |
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that, because just one guy in this world is still a frantic user of said |
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package and will let the world know within 3 months after it has been |
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removed. |
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If you find something that hasn't been updated in 2-3 years, you are |
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bound to find a trail of bugs and tree garbage leading away from it. Get |
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rid of it, keep it clean. |
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- foser |
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