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 76ABA138334 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:35:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3BE2E0843; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:35:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (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 79F97E0823 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:35:28 +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 96051335CD1 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:35:26 +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> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Ch=c3=ad-Thanh_Christopher_Nguy=e1=bb=85n?= Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <0d61b36b-88b0-4c3c-3a0f-5f8b9951fa81@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:36:03 +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: <1535653805.1078.1.camel@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: ad63b480-9683-4ba1-a89d-7a964b63c1ef X-Archives-Hash: dc2e5835d60096a636108943eb0b5c5e 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