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Hi, |
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I recently noticed it twice, that it seems to be common practice to |
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remove a package without using the methods described in [1], but just |
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dropping it from cvs. |
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From my observations packages removed without last-rites could be |
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characterized by this: |
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- it was a dependency of another package |
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- this package dropped / incorporated the dependency |
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- no other packages depend on it |
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- there are possible forks or updates, but maintainer doesn't care^W^W |
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has no interest |
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This might work for the main tree, but it won't for overlays, that might |
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also depend on these packages (because they have a patched / older |
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version of your maintained package). |
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Please stop killing user experience or document this "feature" in [1]. |
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Best regards, |
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Manuel |
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[1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/index.html |
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