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From: Marek Szuba <marecki@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-misc/subsurface
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 08:11:19
Message-Id: 54065828-1229-e6db-f759-d1e8e656f356@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-misc/subsurface by Martin Gysel
1 On 2016-09-11 14:19, Martin Gysel wrote:
2
3 >> +1. Any package whose upstream says "don't build this yourself" is
4 >> hostile to open source principles.
5 > just to make it clear, upstream never said such thing nor are they in
6 > any way hostile to open source principles (I suppose you wouldn't state
7 > that if you know subsurface's developers).
8 They have, however, used the term "deprecated" to describe
9 distribution-maintained packages. It's right there on the download page.
10
11 And yes, I know (and so do at least several other devs) that one of the
12 major contributors to Subsurface is one Linus Torvalds.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-misc/subsurface Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com>