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 658E6138A0A for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:08:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 331A221C0B0; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:08:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3341921C07E for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:08:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89422204A8 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:08:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:08:46 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=binarywings.net; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type; s=mesmtp; bh=oTi/UnJKGKwUXpWdPUkE79D4 Fi4=; b=jIcsOMl/s3vGBcOkURirSAsNZf5gpeAQnFsXwdFHjLaK4v66Q1/YSYuM an0I0jrNqpyCiU94PGdbdl82t5ALiSvYNnxDH4dsX/t3yjwGxU/FbkLMGUqgjnHe TrjexTBRwWZp2Ji4Bc++tuWjGxGEkZStyBKoN8BzpSaNWPHgwag= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=oTi/ UnJKGKwUXpWdPUkE79D4Fi4=; b=FDa9UPVftNJvHj9dEEhE4U8bF39L03k+MAem as+ixwx+RjJz5+O+N21ZMYWdt/c0dQjmg5n9eCqo7FziArf7VBwBfLH+5tHBEVzS as/rF521YWouh6S+bCmYDQa3vm8MpErcz9YQFHHsT+zbpgQnVBKWYHQEj3cZDemc GuOiVx8= X-Sasl-enc: IoIzyozkEmVOOvhYeCw4VF2DeWw8cpRg//NMjqccdQRY 1360800525 Received: from [192.168.5.18] (unknown [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7E2228E09A1 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:08:45 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <511C2B03.9060007@binarywings.net> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:08:35 +0100 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130202 Thunderbird/17.0.2 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/x2, games-strategy/x2-demo References: <511BEDB2.1010101@binarywings.net> <1360796853.3997.186.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> In-Reply-To: <1360796853.3997.186.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="----enig2JQDJDPODINGAXNNDDROV" X-Archives-Salt: 059ae7e4-f09f-4a1f-b523-d4797283b55d X-Archives-Hash: b5bc2401c2f686b1187594d17c5edb20 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2JQDJDPODINGAXNNDDROV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 i= t >> 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 befor= e > removal. To give affected people some time to deal with it however the= y > want. > We can't be expected to keep old stuff around forever :/ >=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. ------enig2JQDJDPODINGAXNNDDROV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEcKwsACgkQqs4uOUlOuU8OpwCdHuyEHigE2O2ovNsnRLx/hxxB 0f4AnA9k6BRhHU5yu+wpmfHshV0PsHQy =iYC3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------enig2JQDJDPODINGAXNNDDROV--