From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GGirp-0002Tt-8W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:05:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7PL3ioa006130; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:03:44 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7PKxxhf005269 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:00:00 GMT Received: from [192.168.168.2] (unknown [82.155.214.104]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88E69647EC for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:59:58 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Xmms needs to die. From: Luis Medinas To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <44EF624F.1040508@gentoo.org> References: <1156365020.13743.15.camel@darksytem> <44EDA6B9.2020504@gmail.com> <20060825093517.GA24742@netswarm.net> <44EF3174.3@gentoo.org> <44EF624F.1040508@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:59:54 +0100 Message-Id: <1156539595.11902.8.camel@darksytem> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 496c2cd8-5baa-4b2c-9071-8671f84396c1 X-Archives-Hash: ffb53d7d79b19866d0c182e7a7c93c64 On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 16:49 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > I don't see how whining about a package you don't maintain, nor helping > out with it helps anyone. Either it stays in pmask, or it stays in > sunrise (since I would bet 5 bucks it ends up in sunrise after getting > punted). The sound team has been very courteous in informing the > community on the matters pertaining to xmms, so either someone picks up > the slack for it, or the affected users (developers and arch teams > included) find another player. > > I don't see why sound should break their backs just so everyone can have > their cake. > > It reminds me of the whole "why isn't X,Y,Z stable!". You are an > empowered smart user, I think you can figure out how to keep a package > that is not in the tree installed on your systems. > Sound herd will have an overlay as soon as we elect a new leader and put xmms there. This is a solution that prevents users to turn their back from us. So xmms will only be used in special cases when someone looks to play something other players don't play. We will keep the future in mind like "we need to inovate" and put xmms2 in the tree. -- Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list