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 1NqlBk-0001OD-JY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:36:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4562CE09B6; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:36:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f213.google.com (mail-fx0-f213.google.com [209.85.220.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C312E08E1 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:36:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm5 with SMTP id 5so2599781fxm.29 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:36:27 -0700 (PDT) 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:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XBvDEatXfzeArD98hhgzDnL0DIkdH+uGQWpa1kqMl/c=; b=N+TxOd2YPkkFXpit+kdCE057jX6PWg/ecGwU8XKldEjfEV7NggyBjW3WnX5JL2j0Y6 WTuSNZd/a3oGmQwWHjBDTmlpUNq97GrhpCWOArG4iXIeja3gDo+wIbQYYXnXI73HEaUC ztfA1bh9PYb/0u14yIJYN9elKa+cf/sxn0hbI= 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 :content-transfer-encoding; b=RMWq3pO3rfVgyZ2RnIfUD3LFVVE6nWjxYHThvxM1I+VXAOJ7/dE8cJCQP/hDEYhJlP ne3y/323JqsM7uSfgdGkl2aOlebSva0ItvD6wIYMfzlX9Ev3mCCvnLwdg6LoHLvZyzvH UzvzX6s3qSDJ8zyF7MBReRfwSmIThai9BM6s4= 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 10.239.135.13 with SMTP id b13mr271784hbb.207.1268562987705; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:36:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <7c612fc61003120746x5c3111d5wfbe1171d93a5bbad@mail.gmail.com> <20100312165910.36d2580a@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:36:27 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3884c9aa987fd4f3 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: cea4b64c-3848-493b-8d26-2b509ff5ff51 X-Archives-Hash: 5362dccb02c39dc996fcbf4dee89a95a On 14 March 2010 06:09, James Cloos wrote: >>>>>> "BdG" =3D=3D Ben de Groot writes: > > BdG> Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. > > Nonsense. =C2=A0That attitude only servers to harm the user base. You're wrong. It serves to protect our users from potentially broken and vulnerable packages. It ascertains a Quality Assurance level that we and our users can be comfortable with. > Leaving them in does not. It does, as it opens the users up to unknown security vulnerabilities and increasing brokenness as bugs are not addressed. If Gentoo would stop caring about QA, then we'd be wasting our time working on making this a better distro. Cheers, --=20 Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) ______________________________________________________