From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HybIu-0003eB-8Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:27:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5DMPNKu002964; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:25:23 GMT Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.236]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5DMNNI5000436 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:23:24 GMT Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id n1so378677nzf for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:23:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=cielEVW3N+mBRw7QpK0EdPOIMMcNIhqSquLNiyWC9i2K+a4p2qI1Df5S9l7vX8X8OZbBc5A8l8iG6ziReD8L5gseaMQgqOU4j7bCVuvdSrie5c8ExItz9n/GQJ7n+OiZ7WwHN9ChzJx9/Dyh0Qn/UxccUV3FNNyhCz2LiMHwC/c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=UshfW80gNW6kKgZDTHbjBbOrcpXZEgTEPgN/g8JhoKrNHsNIuR4MnwmEcIcKOAGIf2Hy5zVH8Qsim31BaIlqJPRCNUAzVOG/9z/cwxs6i03L99CCMaGzy2kk4FnmBOthUUTjVek8Kgdcyb8+ALR1CP65KbRPVfJ7JiwDYKlF2B8= Received: by 10.114.177.1 with SMTP id z1mr1051827wae.1181773402932; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.3? ( [59.176.114.228]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id l36sm2458261waf.2007.06.13.15.23.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:23:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Abhay Kedia To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:53:17 +0530 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <46701D06.5080302@gentoo.org> <200706140128.43094.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> <46705293.90501@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <46705293.90501@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1334326.rf7sB8pbyN"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200706140353.30549.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 338e8c2f-cffd-46d6-92a8-72581e29b7a0 X-Archives-Hash: eb14dd40a82afa8285bce0eb5b9f8869 --nextPart1334326.rf7sB8pbyN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 14 Jun 2007 1:54:51 am Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > But maybe Skype is not so pressing to upgrade, just doesn't provide > distfiles anymore. Then maybe we don't have to obey, but still it's > really questionable if it should be marked stable at all. > Then don't mark it stable but dropping it from the tree altogether? That is= =20 taking it a bit too far imho. > > And yeah I'm a Java dev but at least Java is now open (I admit that the > stable VM's in tree are not, yet) and I don't see that coming for Skype. > Also Java (and your examples of closed source stuff) are not infamous > for the bad stuff mentioned above. > Has any one done the same kind of analysis on all the closed source=20 applications we have in tree? If we take an alternate view on the wikipedia= =20 link then it can be said that it is just an attempt for spreading FUD while= =20 trying to pimp Open Source alternatives? Don't get me wrong...I love open source and that is one of the reasons why = I=20 have been using GNU/Linux for many years but acting paranoid and dropping=20 popular packages from tree is not something, I as a common user, would like= =20 to see. This is the only reason I am poking my nose in the workings of devs. =2D-=20 Regards, Abhay --nextPart1334326.rf7sB8pbyN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGcG5ixrDNZ6sJF8cRAkT0AKCrzDVTqUr8LNNsHt7oFjbOVn2xHgCgiCfS e8AgmHTOMZq62MYMRTiFWLQ= =tqgX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1334326.rf7sB8pbyN-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list