Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages with same name was -> Conversion of Emacs virtual packages

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>]

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On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:48:11 -0400
"William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=155
> > 
> > Not for the versions in the tree they don't.
> 
> You mean 0.5.3 released 2003-12-28. IMHO that borderlines a stale
> package or one that should be punted. Or at min bumped since there has
> been two releases since then. With the latest one being 0.5.5
> 2006-11-19.

Eh, perhaps the vim herd could take a look at that -- maybe someone
should file a bug about it. Although perhaps the version in the tree
works just fine, which is why no-one's noticed that there's an update.

> So is that app really used? Does anyone care about? Sure looks like
> not in both cases.

'Twas added to the tree at user request. Given that Java's basically a
dead language and only being used for legacy applications now, it's
probably not necessary any more. But then, keeping at least one of the
colliding app-vim/ packages around is probably a good idea if only to
remind people why categories exist...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh


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