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Alec Warner wrote: |
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> Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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>> On Thursday 24 August 2006 20:46, Alec Warner wrote: |
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>>> Robert Cernansky wrote: |
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>>>> What bothers me also, is that it has not plugin design like |
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>>>> xmms. Support for plugins is very good because lot of people can write |
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>>>> plugins for lot of things. This is why people do not want to switch |
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>>>> from xmms because thanks to plugins it have so many features that |
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>>>> currently no player is able to overcome it. |
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>>> So port the plugins from xmms to $NEW_CLIENT, since xmms is an old piece |
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>>> of crap. |
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>> Who cares. It works (mostly), it is lightweight, and there are enough people |
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>> using it to keep it in the tree. As long as things don't break beyond repair |
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>> I see no reason whatsoever to remove xmms (or any other largely unmaintained |
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>> package in the tree). |
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>> Paul |
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> This is one of those things (along with qa and security) that the |
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> community needs to decide. Does stuff that works but has terrible qa |
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> stay in the tree? Does security stuff stay in the tree, but masked? |
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> Should xmms be masked? We have no real way of "deprecating" a package, |
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> aside from leaving it in the tree with a masking reason saying |
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> "deprecated and unsupported." at which point not everything in the tree |
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> becomes supported. |
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> The Treecleaner project that I run is based on the assumption that |
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> broken stuff in the tree is bad, and I try to remove the really old stuf |
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> broken stuff first. However I aspire to eventually "catch up" and get |
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> to the currently broken packages. So which way will you have it? Or is |
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> this more of a pragmatic stance on the tree? |
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Broken stuff but still maintained upstream, mask it. |
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Broken stuff and unmaintained upstream , send it to the overlay |
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(probably with a note warning about it on the ebuild?). |
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I would opt for that. |
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So, about the xmms ebuild, i agree with sending it to the overlay. |
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Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org" |
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