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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-im/aim masked for removal
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:16:00
Message-Id: 20060802231212.GC16921@nibiru.local
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] net-im/aim masked for removal by Donnie Berkholz
1 * Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> schrieb:
2 > I've masked net-im/aim, AOL's proprietary offering. It hasn't seen a
3 > release in years, it's binary-only, and it's far less capable than any
4 > other client out there.
5
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7 BTW: could be introduce an separate (optional) masking method
8 for such proprietary stuff ?
9
10 I personally don't want to have such stuff on my system, but I'm
11 really too lazy for check each package I intend to install by
12 its own.
13
14 Would also be cool to have database for those things which is
15 easy to query.
16
17
18 cu
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21 Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/
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23 Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:
24 http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce
25 Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions:
26 http://patches.metux.de/
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] net-im/aim masked for removal John Myers <electronerd@×××××××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] net-im/aim masked for removal Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>