Hi,

Panagiotis Christopoulos <pchrist@gentoo.org>:
> 2) if you don't have any serious considerations, sending mail to
> gentoo-dev about removing these packages ("Last Rites" etc.)and
> masking them in profiles

 Use gentoo-dev-announce.

>     Before anyone starts to complain about the whole thing, please
> have in mind that the bug queue of obsolete/problematic packages is
> huge and our team gets many complaints from gentoo's QA team. Also,
> it's difficult for any of us to prioritize his work/contributions
> when he has to deal with so many bugs/old packages. 

 The plan looks sane.  Better start from scratch than having this huge
mess in the tree.

V-Li

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