On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 17:15 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:04:15 -0400
> Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > Just because stuff isn't maintained doesn't mean that it's not being
> > > used, and if it's not broken I fail to see why it should be removed.
> > 
> > I've seen many times people say "well, this hasn't been touched
> > since..." when a package has no bugs.  Of *course* it hasn't been
> > touched.  It just works.  I wouldn't be surprised if there were quite
> > a few packages that fall into this category.
> 
> Except that the tree is a moving target. The obvious example being a
> package with X dependencies that hasn't been touched for four years...

Except that package would have bugs.  It would have broken dependencies.
Again, I said packages that work.  Being untouched and broken is wholly
different from being untouched and working.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation