Re: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-pms] kdebuild-1 conditionales

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>]

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On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:45:48 -0500
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > And the resolution for that was to make it possible to disable
> > kdebuild-1.
> 
> you were told multiple times that it doesnt belong in the master
> branch and that it should be deleted.  if you actually wanted to
> retain it, you could easily create a kdebuild-1 branch.

Uh. No. As per the Council's request, we turned off kdebuild-1 for the
approved generated versions of the spec, and we made it possible to show
kdebuild-1-specific things in a different colour.

22:22 < dberkholz@> ciaranm: you've got your answer. gotta keep the
conditionals, it seems

> > That is not the same as deleting it while there are still
> > users who have kdebuild-1 packages installed.
> 
> the only people who have such packages installed were using an
> unapproved spec with unofficial package managers.  as such, it is
> their problem to continue to support the crap and  this argument is
> bunk.

So you're telling users who did what the Gentoo KDE project told them
to do that you don't care about them enough to handle the removal in a
carefully controlled manner?

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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