From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25CDD138A18 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:12:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0C5A21C024; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:12:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A50C621C014 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiocik.lan (77-254-82-4.adsl.inetia.pl [77.254.82.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CDEF933E463; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:12:03 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:12:02 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBHw7Nybnk=?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: lists@binarywings.net Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/x2, games-strategy/x2-demo Message-ID: <20130214081202.4326a9b5@pomiocik.lan> In-Reply-To: <511C2B03.9060007@binarywings.net> References: <511BEDB2.1010101@binarywings.net> <1360796853.3997.186.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> <511C2B03.9060007@binarywings.net> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.15; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA256; boundary="Sig_/z+M2WrCNICI=Wz1Jr9UdLgk"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: fb1008d3-21ef-4a8f-8005-250a267d8c2d X-Archives-Hash: 8a843ccc00288dc6c5aaf9864c86994c --Sig_/z+M2WrCNICI=Wz1Jr9UdLgk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:08:35 +0100 Florian Philipp 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 (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 > >> > >> > >=20 > >=20 > > Easy, just copy the ebuild and any patches in the files subdir to a > > local overlay. > >=20 > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml > >=20 > > 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 :/ > >=20 > >=20 >=20 > 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. --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --Sig_/z+M2WrCNICI=Wz1Jr9UdLgk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQEIAAYFAlEcjkYACgkQfXuS5UK5QB3QLwP/WH6BSWqBIwuXQA3W1dl6A48z FJfLonibnI9gEx7zZLPCdTP8gLObLWJEpOfIkpcvCnJM4oBf3srU1A3IaF23eZI0 GvqbkyFMyA/UTRj2iMW5o8lCigYQ0i2ycgNl23O0z0L5Du/qvsYdl4q+igM6+ut3 lagubgI19JlVdhvscYc= =htrl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/z+M2WrCNICI=Wz1Jr9UdLgk--