Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2018-08-30 at 20:36 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> 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.
> 

It may make sense if there is some developer caring enough to actually
put those workarounds in the ebuild, rather than expecting every single
user trying to build it find them himself (and hope he's got all
of them, and the right set).

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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