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From: Wernfried Haas <amne@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Default useflag cleanups: -apm -foomaticdb -fortran -imlib -motif -oss -xmms
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:56:59
Message-Id: 20060605205027.GC3031@superlupo.rechner
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Default useflag cleanups: -apm -foomaticdb -fortran -imlib -motif -oss -xmms by Luis Medinas
1 On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 09:58:46PM +0100, Luis Medinas wrote:
2 > > xmms is still in the tree? People (ok, at least me ;-) ) still use it?
3 > > I don't mind if it has to go and there are alternatives, but why would
4 > > you just want to remove its use flag and not the package itself?
5 > > If it needs to go, either dump all of it or nothing.
6 > >
7 > Xmms will be removed soon... Lot's of users still use xmms mostly
8 > because it has many plugins that others don't. Xmms is still stable but
9 > the upstream is dead so it won't take our patchset. In the end of this
10 > year i would like to remove xmms and all plugins but before i need to
11 > prepare users for this changes and clean some maintainer-wanted bugs for
12 > plugins.
13
14 I see, in that case it does make sense to remove the use flag at some
15 point, too. Thanks for clearing it up.
16
17 cheers,
18 Wernfried
19
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