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On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> Dnia 2014-10-13, o godz. 14:54:56 |
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> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> napisał(a): |
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>> >>>>> On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> > 2. Dependency updates [2] are stuck midway games. With no help from |
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>> > games team, the fact that most of the current dependencies don't |
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>> > make sense and that most of the games are proprietary, you shouldn't |
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>> > expect much sane progress anytime soon. Likely we're just going to |
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>> > end up updating the current dependencies knowing they're likely |
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>> > wrong. |
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>> "Il meglio è l'inimico del bene." -- Voltaire |
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>> You could start with the dependencies currently in ebuilds, and in |
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>> addition use tools like scanelf or lddtree for scanning the binaries |
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>> installed by the package. (Or even the old tools for porting packages |
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>> to modular X [4] could be used; it's a very similar task.) |
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> Proprietary games == no binaries for me. |
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My thought is that we should do what we can with what we have, give |
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notice to the maintainers, and pull the plugs on the emul packages (or |
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at least stop maintaining them, pulling them if they have security |
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issues). |
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I think the fact that we can have non-redistributable or even |
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proprietary software in portage is actually one of Gentoo's strengths. |
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However, it still needs to be maintained. We can better tolerate |
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inactive maintainers for FOSS since anybody can step in and maintain |
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them. |
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If a proprietary package breaks, then it should be treecleaned. I |
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don't think we have to tiptoe around them to keep this from happening. |
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They need to be maintained like any other package. |
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