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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: patrick@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: media-gfx/picasa, dev-python/papyon, net-voip/telepathy-butterfly, sci-visualization/paraview, x11-misc/xdaf
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:49:02
Message-Id: 20130210124849.28034a8c@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: media-gfx/picasa, dev-python/papyon, net-voip/telepathy-butterfly, sci-visualization/paraview, x11-misc/xdaf by Patrick Lauer
1 On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:47:58 +0800
2 Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 02/10/2013 05:01 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
5 > > # Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> (10 Feb 2013)
6 > > # Fails with gcc-4.7, crashes (#301946, #312073), problems with
7 > > # boost (#319921), problems with python-2.7 (#338826), really old
8 > > # version in the tree, people should move to sci overlay one (#424659).
9 > > # Removal in a month.
10 > > sci-visualization/paraview
11 >
12 > So instead of moving things from random overlays to the tree we remove
13 > packages now, remove features from other packages because of that
14 > (openfoam) and then ... tell users to use an overlay?
15 >
16 > Somehow this appears not well thought out to me. Would anyone be
17 > terribly upset if I started pillaging this silly overlay? (And any other
18 > overlays that look like they are fun)
19
20 +1. If you can't manage moving/updating your packages properly
21 and on-time from the sci overlay, please get rid of it.
22
23 --
24 Best regards,
25 Michał Górny

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