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

[Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net>]

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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.


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