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From: P Levine <plevine457@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] removal of bopm before hopm is in tree
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 16:45:32
Message-Id: CADX8ZBKyt17A6ZUK-b+jQrRWBJ5enHvbcTDwQ=d68fJkNumgKA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] removal of bopm before hopm is in tree by Daniel Campbell
1 From the dev mailing list:
2
3 # Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> (21 Aug 2016)
4 # Dead for a long time in favour of hopm, bug #473754.
5 # Removal in a month.
6 net-misc/bopm
7
8 On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 2:40 AM, Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o> wrote:
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10 > On 08/25/2016 07:29 PM, Raymond Jennings wrote:
11 > > I still use bopm, and it built fine last time I emerged it.
12 > >
13 > > If hopm isn't in the tree yet, why was bopm still pmasked for removal?
14 > >
15 > > Reason for asking is I'm curious about removal procedures. I was under
16 > > the impression that replacement packages get added to the tree before
17 > > their obsolete predecessors get pmasked for booting out.
18 > >
19 > > And if that's not the case, should it be?
20 > That's a good question, best answered by the developer who chose to have
21 > the package removed.
22 >
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24 > Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer
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