From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCRMP-0000TP-Tk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:12:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B47EE0D94; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 03:12:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3642E0D94 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 03:12:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 Jan 2008 03:12:06 -0000 Received: from chello080108115144.1.11.univie.teleweb.at (EHLO [192.168.0.64]) [80.108.115.144] by mail.gmx.net (mp051) with SMTP; 09 Jan 2008 04:12:06 +0100 X-Authenticated: #28563408 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+mz05RnaWmY9Gi+PXeAJdWY9e/OV/4FJt68x4uu3 2+8GDu3GD/H1nm Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January From: Matthias Langer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20080109024724.12bd71fc@snowcone> References: <20080101103002.083C4652C4@smtp.gentoo.org> <20080105043233.0935d2f8@snowcone> <61307.68.54.223.178.1199541823.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> <20080106003356.46087fef@snowcone> <20080106233412.5875626f@snowcone> <1199829889.8108.12.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20080109021735.42cd3856@snowcone> <1199846287.8108.143.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20080109024125.3bfc9479@snowcone> <20080109024724.12bd71fc@snowcone> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-mYwgbPwn3YU9f3gXoVye" Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:11:58 +0100 Message-Id: <1199848318.5325.46.camel@vega.lnet> 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 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 87976254-fce3-40f4-8240-0ead61ed93b5 X-Archives-Hash: 59da1edd0718ed3771cafc9924c690a0 --=-mYwgbPwn3YU9f3gXoVye Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 02:47 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:44:22 -0800 > "Alec Warner" wrote: > > > Uh... So where do the original problems come from? Are you saying > > > that packages mysteriously start breaking on their own because > > > no-one's maintaining them? > >=20 > > Of course they do >=20 > Ah, right. Because of the magical elf that lives in the CVS server > that mysteriously goes around breaking dependencies when no-one's > looking. >=20 > Yes, a magical elf. Much more plausible than the theory that it's > actually developers screwing up by dropping keywords or best keyworded > version on a package's deps. Software that is not maintained is known to fail after some time; not because the software changes, but the environment the software has to interact with - but i guess you know that very well. Really, this discussion is completely pointless unless some mips users/developers join in - or aren't there any at all? Matthias --=-mYwgbPwn3YU9f3gXoVye Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHhDt+7MvyVd+UcwMRAmCuAJ0dbc+jHyY3nRAzuvMn4gFIEdi4rgCgiTnR 6phjTPpyVwNKfIVURfu3+CA= =7C4f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-mYwgbPwn3YU9f3gXoVye-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list