Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to retirement

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:00:52 +0700 (+07)
grozin@gentoo.org wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Brian Evans wrote:
> > IMO, this one should be given last-rites as upstream is dead and it
> > heavily depends on wireless-tools and WEXT.  
> I use it on 2 notebooks. It works fine, and is (from my point of view) the 
> most convenient tool to control ethernet and wifi connections on a 
> notebook. Why lastrite it when it works?

This is the Gentoo Way™. Having a working software is not a goal.
Gentoo focuses on the best bleeding edge experience and therefore
highly relies on software packages that are under active development
and require active maintenance. The packages in early stages of
development are especially interesting since they can supply users
and developers with variety of interesting bugs and unpredictable
issues.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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