Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

["Jan Kundrát" <jkt@gentoo.org>]

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Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> On Sunday 02 April 2006 22:29, Simon Stelling wrote:
> 
>>Come on. Is this a 'policy doesn't say I have to be sane' war? It's 
>>absolutely reasonable to p.mask a package that is pending for removal. That
>>way you give the users a timeframe which they can search for alternative
>>tools in.
> 
> 
> This is not the case. At least unless the user actively looks at package.mask. 
> Since Portage doesn't provide the information, this point is void. And even 
> if - four weeks are a too long, imho.

slon ~ # emerge -uDNpv world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies \
!!! Packages for the following atoms are either all
!!! masked or don't exist:
games-fps/cube dev-util/eclipse-pydev-bin
[...]


Cheers,
-jkt

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