Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex-cvs being removed from portage?

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

Here's a basic summary from the way I see it from watching the
discussion.

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 21:42, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> Good point.  Could we know the reason it's being considered?  If it's license 

> philosophy.  If there are other reasons can we know them and maybe comment on 
> them, too?

How about because they asked us to?  Essentially, we have been asked to
not create an automated process to allow a user to install winex from
cvs.  The anonymous cvs is there for people to assist in development
with winex.  Technically, there is nothing stopping us from continuing
to provide winex-cvs ebuilds.  However, Gentoo is part of a larger
community and quite simply, you don't maintain your status as a useful
member of the community if you go around pissing off your neighbors.  In
fact, there is nothing keeping Transgaming from pulling the anonymous
cvs access for the winex sources from sourceforge and making it
available to subscriber's only.

> many apps (not just games) that's an important consideration.  Yes, we could 
> get it from Transgaming but then I have to install a non-ebuild app on my 
> system and I lose the advantages of portage.

Copy your winex tarballs to /usr/portage/distfiles and emerge
winex-transgaming.  The ebuild which installs the binary version of
winex isn't going anywhere.
-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux


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