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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:35:32
Message-Id: 0d61b36b-88b0-4c3c-3a0f-5f8b9951fa81@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash by "Michał Górny"
1 Michał Górny schrieb:
2 >> So maybe mask it, but not remove?
3 >>
4 >
5 > Maybe it's time you realize that if you want something to stay, then you
6 > need to actually *take it* and *fix it*. Keeping clearly broken stuff
7 > so that every user could try jumping through a few hoops to build it has
8 > no value.
9
10 I think it is a valid concern that removal of packages may sometimes be
11 overzealous, and to better keep packages in the tree as long as they are
12 useful and workarounds exist for build/runtime problems. Just in case of
13 gnash there is really no benefit in keeping it.
14
15
16 Best regards,
17 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>