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 1Nq8jf-0002Qe-Lp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:33:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A23EDE0B01; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:33:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f201.google.com (mail-px0-f201.google.com [209.85.216.201]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589C6E0AAF for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:33:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi39 with SMTP id 39so850722pxi.2 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:33:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=UZL9upv7JE0jvbslpQjDWHu61/vnfMl4XB5rwW3X2Z4=; b=r+V+65TY2ZhemXD0Pv80Cd7XygSOVBEO2fn8TpAw72/5Coo+E0yRt2zKjFVV55FPNp 0LddlRQvpUIwVUYrYgkzB41ZyQE2f8NhRq1zxwDB025Z9hXj5FanixtixKE9fNXbnlPT oSL0WBKuF+KKkDB/dJV3U0JJ7GBJ4nmxFA45c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=OpiHVgVFhrjy0yHYkZYCmbLsWtJDdpKOrxKuaGxt8vEz88K6+h6aSX14mFuot9vwbO Nfbu2/ykbEn05AS3Sp/2CE+cH/nqN8dbPoiCIvnJMLsFFllJav/hqayLJxf5/I23mcEP dElLYbbygRaFWurRpHcef4prkF+LA/DQgJsYA= 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 Sender: yngwin.gentoo@gmail.com Received: by 10.141.15.17 with SMTP id s17mr3286990rvi.231.1268415192477; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:33:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100312165910.36d2580a@gentoo.org> References: <7c612fc61003120746x5c3111d5wfbe1171d93a5bbad@mail.gmail.com> <20100312165910.36d2580a@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:33:12 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: c821248abbdfbb61 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages From: Ben de Groot To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 08a675c5-1363-4fce-acc0-2efffd2112ae X-Archives-Hash: 1f9c6a198c1d0673ea1f452072df0928 On 12 March 2010 16:59, Alexis Ballier wrote: > Or like the old gtk-1: completely abandon the package and let the > consumers upgrade slowly. IMHO this is the less annoying approach for > everyone. Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. That's why we have a treecleaners project. Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) ______________________________________________________