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On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:17:46 +0530
Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I propose that we should be more aggressive about package.masking (for
> removal) all maintainer-needed packages from the tree by doing that
> one month after they become maintainer-needed. If someone doesn't
> volunteer to take care of it, it probably wasn't important anyway.

That would never work with m-n packages that other packages *DEPEND on.


     jer