Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/x2, games-strategy/x2-demo

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:08:35 +0100
Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net> wrote:

> Am 14.02.2013 00:07, schrieb Brian Dolbec:
> > On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 20:46 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
> >> Am 13.02.2013 20:19, schrieb Michael Sterrett:
> >>> # Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@gentoo.org> (13 Feb 2013)
> >>> # No longer licensed for sale upstream.
> >>> # Masked for removal on 20130315.
> >>> games-strategy/x2
> >>> games-strategy/x2-demo
> >>>
> >>
> >> Sure, I cannot buy it anymore. But what about people who already own it
> >> and would like to re-emerge it or migrate it between PCs?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Florian Philipp
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Easy, just copy the ebuild and any patches in the files subdir to a
> > local overlay.
> > 
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml
> > 
> > That is one of the reasons things are masked for at least 30 days before
> > removal.  To give affected people some time to deal with it however they
> > want.
> > We can't be expected to keep old stuff around forever :/
> > 
> > 
> 
> Which brings us back to the old discussion on what good it does for one
> person to do the work of masking and removing and N persons to do the
> work of creating an overlay instead of just letting the package rot in
> the tree until it is actually broken. But I guess everyone's pretty
> tired of that discussion so let's leave it at that.

Or N^4 people downloading ebuilds which serve no purpose whatever. That
stacks faster than you think.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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