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

[Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net> wrote:
> 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.
>

I'll say the same thing I've said in the past; it doesn't look like
anyone in the dev community is interested in it. There is nothing
preventing anyone from doing it; so feel free to set it up and show us
up!

-A