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On Saturday 11 October 2008 20:53:37 Erik Hahn wrote: |
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> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:24:03PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > I'm looking into ivman and pmount for automounting amongst other things |
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> > while using e17. |
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> > ivman was last updated Feb 2007 according to the official sourceforge |
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> > page, and the maintainer is listed as "????". 18 months is a long time, |
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> > so this package looks like it's unmaintained. |
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> Does software rot when it's unmaintained or why is that a problem? |
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> The only problem I can see are unfixed bugs but these exist in |
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> maintained packages as well. |
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ivman is closely tied in with hal and dbus, both of which have a history of |
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hitting users with incompatibilities. I'd rather not deal with those issues |
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for this usage, and reserve my willingness to bug-hunt for other areas |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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