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 1NqEZM-0005gz-N4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:47:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 437B5E0825; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:47:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f210.google.com (mail-fx0-f210.google.com [209.85.220.210]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 845EBE081A for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:46:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so338985fxm.26 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:46:53 -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=tkBQrPE9CfENAr4pG7vpdVNYT6EKFgP91l2gJ3g8Ahc=; b=uqEMiQYLfTpN7m7EQAqChUZuSQ+w9FThw0KUFyEaazUDgpQLhJxmAapWI1lV6PDS8g oQCJR9EQupe1pdt2NaN8KssaYmSBrxoMOSkNvs5koFsrR5sSyrCua9nB0xymS4F465ff oGDqtaSei9oOzQMwcMC24lelq0BmZZefwAE1U= 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=tOrEA1B/tELJwGU6qwqb9vJfnNAP3RNiCxk9IfRqlLmX/kiEyjEuOw+pZ/8JI8h6bz n/z/6i/VkQT3vN/Jg9QcTdfXYsJzoEI9eBXohUBmGCk78pCJne/z7sby4ezt/Z/RzEpx XVI6hkYxy+tI68Zrhmw36L8iTv8ZeWUHkJSeU= 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 10.239.161.84 with SMTP id g20mr540340hbd.214.1268437612741; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:46:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100312170731.603580e0@gentoo.org> References: <7c612fc61003120746x5c3111d5wfbe1171d93a5bbad@mail.gmail.com> <20100312165910.36d2580a@gentoo.org> <20100312170731.603580e0@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:46:52 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8b8670dd891e745c Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 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: 7907b290-dad9-4021-9d9f-b2a3c0ede030 X-Archives-Hash: 7366e4eb381c61d917d911e6c4534a19 On 13 March 2010 00:07, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:33:12 +0100 > Ben de Groot wrote: >> Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. That's >> why we have a treecleaners project. > > The treecleaners project is tasked with keeping these packages working, and > removing them only if there is no other alternative. No, treecleaners is tasked with either finding a maintainer for those packages, or removing them from the tree. Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) ______________________________________________________