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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


  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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