From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I0Q5T-0006Cx-9N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:52:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5IMpg6q027976; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:51:42 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5IMnkfP025651 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:49:47 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA5C64E98 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:49:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.723 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.723 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.607, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.253, TW_VD=0.077] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id BJKs3emR5RLI for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:49:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB5364F69 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:49:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I0PzS-0003rI-Pd for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:46:30 +0200 Received: from 91.84.98.178 ([91.84.98.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:46:30 +0200 Received: from slong by 91.84.98.178 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:46:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:34:15 +0100 Message-ID: References: <46701D06.5080302@gentoo.org> <20070617140632.GB7280@localhost.localdomain> <20070617201008.66b1340c@maya> <46769716.9050907@gentoo.org> <4676A064.5090302@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.84.98.178 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: e6a22a12-ee64-480f-ad2a-601a98fdc44e X-Archives-Hash: 992055981c59e04e560142bf230a818f Steev Klimaszewski wrote: >> It is neither a QA nor license issue, its an issue of the download being >> unavailable. Please read the full thread. > And to reply to myself - its a licensing issue since we cannot mirror > the distfile. Er thanks for that ;) > However, I hardly find that "facist" - my own opinion, > others vary of course - the main issue is simply that the download won't > be available - if you even throw out the licensing issue of not > mirroring, have you tried to install 2006.0 lately? (Yes, I know 2007.0 > is out) - you can't even do a 2006.0 install if you use the portage and > stage3 tarballs from the cd because those distfiles are no longer > available. Sorry while your opinion on the license seems relevant, the rest seems not so to me. If you want to get into the whole discussion about keeping old ebuilds, the forums have been after that for ages. The standard reply is download them from cvs, which isn't hard if you need 'em for enterprise (the installed ones are kept in vdb in any case.) I don't see why Gentoo should be supporting old *install media* as opposed to the tree of software which people should have updated to. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list