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Since no one has shown concern for these poor, frightened packages, |
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they will be humanely removed from portage. |
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- -Jon |
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Jon Hood wrote: |
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> If anyone has ever tried to run a gnutella gwebcache, they've |
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> probably noticed about 8-10 requests a second. And it increases |
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> during high-usage hours. This makes it useless to run cgi-based |
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> scripts unless you have a super-powerful database and web server. |
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> Since the usefulness of such scripts has gone to practically 0, |
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> they are no longer maintained upstream and I recommend the removal |
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> of them from portage. The following packages headed for the |
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> guillotine are: |
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> |
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> net-p2p/phpgnucacheii net-p2p/gwebcache net-p2p/perlgcache |
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> |
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> The recommended package for anyone wanting to support the gnutella |
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> network is net-p2p/ghostwhitecrab, which is its own built-in |
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> server. Ghostwhitecrab will continue to be maintained both upstream |
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> and in portage. |
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> |
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> If someone would like to save these packages from a gruesome death, |
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> speak now. If not, I'll post another message to gentoo-dev right |
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> before the massacre, and everyone's welcome to join #gentoo-commits |
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> to watch the gore. |
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> |
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> -Jon |
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