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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:26:47
Message-Id: 4B465F3F.4000305@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Thursday 07 January 2010 21:19:27 Stroller wrote:
3 >
4 >> I hope my above statements don't sound nasty, but you want 3.5, Alan
5 >> [1] wants KDE 4. The various developers upstream of you and Alan -
6 >> i.e. both KDE and Gentoo - don't have time to work on both. So they
7 >> have each chosen where to spend their time, and that's on KDE 4.
8 >>
9 >
10 > [snip]
11 >
12 >
13 >> [1] Some hypothetical Alan who does not really exist.
14 >>
15 >
16 > Ahem <cough><cough>
17 >
18 > I *think*, but not sure, that I feel offended by being mythicalisized[2]
19 >
20 > [2] Some hypothetical word that truly does not exist.
21 >
22 > Lucky for us, the Red hats and SuSEs of this world will maintain at least
23 > critical security flaws in KDE-3.5 that Gentoo users can import into kde-
24 > sunset: those distros shipped KDE-3.5 and are still actively supported
25 >
26 >
27
28 Should we also assume that Redhat and SuSE is doing that support, not
29 KDE who is the one that dropped KDE 3.5 ??
30
31 Dale
32
33 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>