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From: Hans de Graaff <graaff@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/phantomjs and dev-ruby/poltergeist
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 05:28:15
Message-Id: 1496726880.31590.1.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/phantomjs and dev-ruby/poltergeist by Kent Fredric
1 On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 23:06 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
2 >
3 > Can phantomjs be simply masked for a longer period until the
4 > development
5 > world has had an opportunity to catch up?
6
7 What kind of timeframe do you propose?
8
9 > 1.5 Months from "We're not working on this" to "its dead jim, kill it
10 > from orbit"
11 > is a bit fast for anything entrenched.
12
13 The problems were there a lot longer so for me at least it still feels
14 slow. The fact that Chromium is now an alternative finally made it
15 easier to mask this, but really we should have masked this months ago.
16 If not for security reasons than for all the QA violations such as tons
17 of bundled code.
18
19 > Chromium 59 is also, similarly, quite new.
20
21 It has hit stable upstream so we should see stable versions in Gentoo
22 soon, I expect.
23
24 Hans

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