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From: "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:00:15
Message-Id: 510D629D.8030205@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply by William Hubbs
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4 On 02/02/2013 01:49 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
5 > On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 02:05:50PM +0100, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
6 >> Dne So 2. února 2013 12:44:30, Vaeth napsal(a):
7 >>>
8 >>> When I came to Gentoo many years ago, this was a very rare problem,
9 >>> but the removal of packages has tremendously increased, and it is
10 >>> not only me who is observing this problem - there were already some
11 >>> threads in the forums, and people planning to but not coming back
12 >>> to Gentoo for this reason.
13 >>
14 >> Awesome so they could've get involved and maintain it themselves if they seen
15 >> it so crushial for their lives.
16 >
17 > Agreed. That's why there are last rights announcements with a 30 day
18 > delay before the package is actually removed. That is also why we allow
19 > people to proxy-maintain packages.
20 >
21 > In a nutshell, the people complaining about removals should stop
22 > complaining and start volunteering to maintain either the packages, or
23 > set up some place on github or some other service and maintain the
24 > software so we can package it.
25
26 This could not possibly be more well said.
27
28 - -Zero
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