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On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 03:34:56 -0500, Mike Huber wrote: |
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> There are plenty of packages within portage which have no longer been |
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> maintained for just as long as xmms (see cgoban for an example). It |
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> seems that this is a rather silly choice of packages to single out. It |
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> seems to me that xmms can live a perfectly natural life within portage |
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> so long as it is no longer included by default with the Xorg package. |
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> Granted, I have absolutely zero sway with anyone who matters within the |
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> gentoo community, but personally I would prefer to see it remain. |
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It is in one of the layman overlays. This seems to be the best place for |
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"retired" packages. |
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The difference with cgoban is that there are no outstanding bugs for it |
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in Bugzilla; age is not a problem, brokenness is. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental. |
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