* [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-libs/publib
@ 2005-10-30 18:26 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
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From: Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò @ 2005-10-30 18:26 UTC (permalink / raw
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I've p.masked dev-libs/publib and it's pending removal in a week from now if
nobody says anything.
This library was added in 2002 but seems like nothing is actually making use
of it anyway. Some of the functions are broken. There's no more an active
upstream, and the Debian patches we're using are unmaintained, too.
It could have been used to provide missing functions on non-glibc systems, but
it's difficult to handle, and GNULib[1] can be used instead (it's not in
portage, but if it will ever needed by Gentoo/ALT projects I can add it to
gentoo-alt overlay and then to the main portage when needed.
publib was added for the pure sake of it, without a required dependency. It
seems not to be used by anything useful at the moment.
I'd rather avoid having a dead piece of code lying around and maybe screwing
things around.
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE
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