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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:40:30
Message-Id: 20120128093907.1f315c98@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf by Philip Webb
1 On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:58:16 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
2
3 > I very much hope there is at least an alternative
4 > or otherwise some reconsideration of removing Xpdf from Gentoo.
5
6 One of the reasons for the 30 day warning is to give you time to copy the
7 ebuild to a local overlay if you want to continue running the software at
8 your own risk. But leaving unmaintained software in the tree, especially
9 with security holes, is at best pointless and at worst dangerous.
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13 Neil Bothwick
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