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

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

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On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:16:14 -0100
"Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@gentoo.org> wrote:
> as you know the only people that used kdebuild-1 were the ones using
> the KDE overlay to track live ebuilds. Even though Wulf has recently
> showed that some people are still trying to sync from his box (even
> though the git repo was removed more than 2 weeks ago), the vast
> majority has either switched to one of the methods currently
> supported by the KDE team or has decided to move to exheres (and thus
> exherbo). In any case, it was used in an overlay, following an
> unapproved spec that was only supported by a single PM - which is not
> the official Gentoo PM. It's surprising that people wanting to follow
> live ebuilds are still trying to sync from a repo that stopped
> actively following upstream quite some time ago - long before the
> repo was deleted. It would be useful to have an idea of many users
> we're talking about, but given the former, I have a hard time
> believing the number of users is large.

We know that the number of users with things installed is not zero. We
also know that by following a simple migration path, that number can
become zero in a way that doesn't result in any nasty surprises for
anyone. That's all that the Council is being asked to agree on here --
that rather than nuking things without warning, we should warn affected
users that they need to take action, and give them a reasonable about
of time to do so before we go around deleting anything.

- -- 
Ciaran McCreesh
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