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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:27:46
Message-Id: 200612011517.39719.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo by Daniel Iliev
1 On Friday 01 December 2006 09:00, Daniel Iliev wrote:
2 > Steve Dibb wrote:
3 > > XMMS was dropped since it had many bugs, dead upstream, and no
4 > > maintainer. Essentially it was becoming a real drain on Gentoo
5 > > developers time and patience and so the hard decision was made to let
6 > > it go.
7 > >
8 > > The whole shebang is covered in quite a bit in the forums.
9 > >
10 > > Steve
11 >
12 > Thank you!
13 >
14 > This is the info I was looking for.
15 >
16
17 also it depends on gtk-1.X which is dead too. So xmms is a dead package
18 depending on a dead toolkit with countless bugs nobody is fixing.
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