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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Cc: lists@binarywings.net
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/x2, games-strategy/x2-demo
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 06:53:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_niJrbeLxDWS1ZkRSKCQeVq2Krukh6AoO0GjY=0J22PYg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130214081202.4326a9b5@pomiocik.lan>

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:12 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Or N^4 people downloading ebuilds which serve no purpose whatever. That
> stacks faster than you think.
>

That seems more like an argument for not having non-free (as in beer)
proprietary software in the tree at all.

I have mixed feelings on this particular removal.  I'd probably leave
it there until it is actually broken, but the problem with stuff like
this is that it is almost impossible to tell if it actually is broken,
since none of the devs have access to the distfiles.  As a result it
probably makes sense to be more aggressive about treecleaning non-free
software if it doesn't have an active maintainer.

Rich


      reply	other threads:[~2013-02-14 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-13 19:19 [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/x2, games-strategy/x2-demo Michael Sterrett
2013-02-13 19:46 ` Florian Philipp
2013-02-13 23:07   ` Brian Dolbec
2013-02-14  0:08     ` Florian Philipp
2013-02-14  1:03       ` Alec Warner
2013-02-14  7:12       ` Michał Górny
2013-02-14 11:53         ` Rich Freeman [this message]

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