From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0271C138334 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:37:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A688E0863; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:37:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BBAD6E0823 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:37:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiot (d202-252.icpnet.pl [109.173.202.252]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0593E335CD9; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1535654246.1078.3.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:37:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: <0d61b36b-88b0-4c3c-3a0f-5f8b9951fa81@gentoo.org> References: <20180829120123.a14bec29f4b2a239170c2860@gentoo.org> <1535653805.1078.1.camel@gentoo.org> <0d61b36b-88b0-4c3c-3a0f-5f8b9951fa81@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-oI2whj21ASWQkIVQGsP9" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.24.6 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-Archives-Salt: 325a248d-d4b2-4bdd-b873-6670d189d68c X-Archives-Hash: e6ce543f0092b5b3a8246d34b1e5c4cd --=-oI2whj21ASWQkIVQGsP9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2018-08-30 at 20:36 +0200, Ch=C3=AD-Thanh Christopher Nguy=E1=BB=85= n wrote: > Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny schrieb: > > > So maybe mask it, but not remove? > > >=20 > >=20 > > Maybe it's time you realize that if you want something to stay, then yo= u > > 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 ha= s > > no value. >=20 > I think it is a valid concern that removal of packages may sometimes be= =20 > overzealous, and to better keep packages in the tree as long as they are= =20 > useful and workarounds exist for build/runtime problems. Just in case of= =20 > gnash there is really no benefit in keeping it. >=20 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). --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --=-oI2whj21ASWQkIVQGsP9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQKTBAABCgB9FiEEXr8g+Zb7PCLMb8pAur8dX/jIEQoFAluIOWZfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDVF QkYyMEY5OTZGQjNDMjJDQzZGQ0E0MEJBQkYxRDVGRjhDODExMEEACgkQur8dX/jI EQoeGg//SwZWRO9N9ifOSVPvJtT1F7CajAXUVtvquaTqvmWIagFQVjV7yVspJjsg 7jec1fV4Pdz5P43dUBq9wjw94p4RDxVF+zRJ3YwLi4aBX33+JGxMS4RGdCTuYGQx wBPzsNCRhnCFp2vKGYHHOmZ6yJOBe9m/3Tczb7duzL5px9E+UEuVha5dkcRUQY69 SXOjHtcsgNk2KEKebtNZKALHqyi9r5OvRUEnDa3F8SbhncQGwzMgfG1ZNwrrJi9m 0gTJHC9nbkId3jMSSEDcwSqqaOmkjWOn1QLUEM1vZIC6dG0YKAOu+jIoLwKJ5QRH +AFIC+tow8xkyApxYfBZHeuuH/OVC0uCh5ncjMBJCr2hYa0NSHx9efayFbBYUVOr BU8ye8mSlQ0bLnU8F7hWhMiKYAMEVWQLWUwlo3RV2o8VhJIDgAEkpyfDcsvqnTvV hg0/Blxb2tFiRYm4KOT+jEvbSJjYyyMNjvYP3qwSHL074LiGpyTdt4vRlD3yqmSq 0v/kWqVsqEgAGq5W9Z3rvlvZ+iOhm/IE+U2wK73YZEp82ag3fhPmU8xh9KE5Vi0J gnfYGRUFpsrBO6OUQ0l6JzDmfCZ5bKd8+4PqGOlh84Pc9QLMKMXhbp9jQGoEryUq 5glwkRs9vqTgVO+a8WNpErVOiuOs6GeOle6iG3oDxbNC/j7xCCk= =RG7n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-oI2whj21ASWQkIVQGsP9--