From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HyZCg-0003R1-GP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:12:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5DKBSu4011934; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:11:28 GMT Received: from smtp3.libero.it (smtp3.libero.it [193.70.192.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5DK9NqQ009221 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:09:23 GMT Received: from smtp-out2.libero.it (192.168.32.26) by smtp3.libero.it (7.2.079) id 45C2152002FC8194 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:09:23 +0200 Received: from smtp-pim.libero.it (172.31.0.92) by smtp-out2.libero.it (7.3.120) id 4611FD9804E7933E for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:09:23 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAABDrb0aXK+o9UGdsb2JhbAANjzABAT8H Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.0.6]) ([151.43.234.61]) by smtp-pim.libero.it with ESMTP; 13 Jun 2007 22:09:23 +0200 Message-ID: <46704FBB.8080504@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:12:43 +0200 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070607) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree References: <46701D06.5080302@gentoo.org> <46701E34.8090301@gentoo.org> <200706140128.43094.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200706140128.43094.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9d685cf7-c265-44fd-8b4b-cabdb2fe91be X-Archives-Hash: 8c10e9af9f743ce87b8b83404a4a5d47 Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Wednesday 13 Jun 2007 10:11:24 pm Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> Drop it from stable completely, possibly package.mask or move to >> overlay. Why should this closed-source rootkit be in stable? >> > If closed source is the criteria of getting dropped from stable status or > tree, than are we dropping netscape-flash, vmware and NVIDIA etc. as well? > NO NO NO. The criteria are: - if you cannot fix it - if you cannot workaround it mask it till you can do something. being closed source reduces the possibility to workaround the problems not to mention fix them properly. lu - cinelerra is opensource, but quite hard to handle, guess what happened... -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list