From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:36:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d61b36b-88b0-4c3c-3a0f-5f8b9951fa81@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1535653805.1078.1.camel@gentoo.org>
Michał Górny schrieb:
>> So maybe mask it, but not remove?
>>
>
> Maybe it's time you realize that if you want something to stay, then you
> need to actually *take it* and *fix it*. Keeping clearly broken stuff
> so that every user could try jumping through a few hoops to build it has
> no value.
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.
Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-30 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-29 1:20 [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2018-08-29 9:01 ` Andrew Savchenko
2018-08-30 18:23 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2018-08-30 18:30 ` Michał Górny
2018-08-30 18:36 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn [this message]
2018-08-30 18:37 ` Michał Górny
2018-08-30 18:50 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
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2009-09-04 20:17 Rémi Cardona
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