From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S9nhe-00073J-UL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:17:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53D6AE0BDA; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:17:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EAACE0BC1 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so7534824wer.40 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:16:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=pw5vyJwxthS7L6XuPQbDgZhLo6dk9PXBbVoRczzQCjg=; b=dvrPNPMC3pNq4c7DrH38Qgi25Ctm8Mh9GBDazdmwtieYs68TxuXOUnNKDasgGssN7/ vFgNwpAEYSSGuZfVTsGk1Z/EH26R/Xd5BtvWBuCr/YO+QueKabWaGYxQGE/o7I9SnLk9 Hb4KfRGmd1qh7+Zz2cABfbatRf2oVoEjNWa5p3Enh93+AEtXtiaDHM+C5vHNz2KR3ynR m6xrlDpYyk+s6AU468fzSQ0q9Rd08AnCL4bgRo7wMcJmxsKAjFMyI40X56XBSczEbcMb l+HHcJfDMJx/ELVyhXPUU92nzDJsNOidV3e0LC0D9EcMOQbwIx5iQiPWNQcLBfxEiAOp dsHA== 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 Received: by 10.216.144.210 with SMTP id n60mr2937187wej.5.1332206186294; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:16:26 -0700 (PDT) Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com Received: by 10.227.5.138 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:16:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F67A273.2030204@gentoo.org> References: <1332094529.21995.11.camel@belkin4> <4F66CC9F.3050007@gentoo.org> <4F67A273.2030204@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:16:26 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: S4lPWWfkjNJ1mVZao7GLDA-6cMY Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due iluxa retirement From: Alec Warner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQn+anfvC2whM/tRhMpuRy8QW/Oe8kOnWap2LOFiOL4YkzX/O2rhuD8/Q9+qr3w00OWZBUl6 X-Archives-Salt: 20b5132b-40e9-486b-9d6c-2b604592ac09 X-Archives-Hash: 0bb6868162d0d1801dd249f4e47de760 On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Samuli Suominen wro= te: > On 03/19/2012 11:00 PM, David Leverton wrote: >> >> On 19 March 2012 06:05, Samuli Suominen =C2=A0wrot= e: >>> >>> dev-cpp/cppserv would need working dev-cpp/sptk and we have none: >>> >>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D402149#c9 >>> >>> the only working versions got marked as "obsolete" by upstream due to >>> "undisclosed reasons" whatever that means >>> >> >> Not that I personally care, but it seems like this could be "solved" >> by just removing fltk support, rather than nuking it completely. >> > > don't think we should be "clinging on" the unmaintained packages that bad= ly > from general overview of the sptk homepage, the whole point of the packag= e > seems to be around fltk (and thus, X) > > and from broader view... sometimes it seems the politics around package > removal has become a burden, rather than a tool > What politics? -A