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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: dev-python/buildutils
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 18:01:02
Message-Id: pan$6b50e$3047b9f2$7291e400$ec3ae29e@cox.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/buildutils by Mike Gilbert
1 Mike Gilbert posted on Wed, 25 May 2016 11:52:46 -0400 as excerpted:
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3 > # Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> (25 May 2016)
4 > # Causes build failures in unrelated packages due to invasive #
5 > monkey-patching of easy_install (dev-python/setuptools).
6 > # Remove this package in 30 days.
7 > # Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/575844 dev-python/buildutils
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9 No revdeps, I take it?
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11 (Especially with such obvious revdep connotation naming that's commonly
12 put in the masking notice itself if so, with the revdeps masked as well
13 if not, so the mention or mask of revdeps as well is obvious by omission
14 here.)
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16 --
17 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
18 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
19 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: dev-python/buildutils Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>