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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please stop useless removals
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On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Diego Elio Petten=F2
<flameeyes@flameeyes.eu> wrote:
> On 01/02/2013 23:52, Rich Freeman wrote:
>>
>> For those who are doing the treecleaning, please do yourself a favor
>> and point out the actual show-stoppers so that you don't have a war on
>> your hand every time you mask something. :)
>
> Or maybe, you know, stop starting idiotic flamewars on principles
> assuming that all of QA is out to ruin your life, which seems to happen
> pretty often to you.
The argument was made that unmaintained packages that have dead
upstreams should be removed. I explained why this was bad policy.
This is not a flamewar.
It turns out that this wasn't actually why these packages were
removed, but it doesn't really change the validity of anything I said.
In the end the error wasn't in the removal of the packages, but in
the justification for doing so.
It really isn't meant personally, and I certainly don't take it as such.
Rich