From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2586138334 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:50:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A201E086F; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:50:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E85CCE0867 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:50:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (dslb-002-200-185-218.002.200.pools.vodafone-ip.de [2.200.185.218]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: chithanh) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CEFA4335C63 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:50:20 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20180829120123.a14bec29f4b2a239170c2860@gentoo.org> <1535653805.1078.1.camel@gentoo.org> <0d61b36b-88b0-4c3c-3a0f-5f8b9951fa81@gentoo.org> <1535654246.1078.3.camel@gentoo.org> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Ch=c3=ad-Thanh_Christopher_Nguy=e1=bb=85n?= Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <051805c4-1b8a-b887-09b5-106e3604b54f@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:50:51 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.9.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1535654246.1078.3.camel@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 6731e356-0f93-4737-a714-54b4567b49b6 X-Archives-Hash: c505c9c295601054a5fcd9158ab1ca1f Michał Górny schrieb: >> I think it is a valid concern that removal of packages may sometimes be >> overzealous, and to better keep packages in the tree as long as they are >> useful and workarounds exist for build/runtime problems. Just in case of >> gnash there is really no benefit in keeping it. >> > > It may make sense if there is some developer caring enough to actually > put those workarounds in the ebuild, rather than expecting every single > user trying to build it find them himself (and hope he's got all > of them, and the right set). If you mean, putting these workarounds as elog message, maybe. But putting them as code is not always possible, as it may require changes in other packages or similar. And sometimes, there were building and working packages masked for removal just because they lacked a maintainer. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn