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From: Erik Hahn <erik_hahn@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:53:43
Message-Id: 20081011185337.GA6796@eriks
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:24:03PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > I'm looking into ivman and pmount for automounting amongst other things while
3 > using e17.
4 >
5 > ivman was last updated Feb 2007 according to the official sourceforge page,
6 > and the maintainer is listed as "????". 18 months is a long time, so this
7 > package looks like it's unmaintained.
8
9 Does software rot when it's unmaintained or why is that a problem?
10
11 The only problem I can see are unfixed bugs but these exist in
12 maintained packages as well.
13
14 -Erik
15 --
16 hackerkey://v4sw5hw2ln3pr5ck0ma2u7LwXm4l7Gi2e2t4b7Ken4/7a16s0r1p-5.62/-6.56g5OR

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman Norberto Bensa <nbensa@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>