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From: Thomas Kahle <tomka@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] scilab-4 removal from the tree
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:42:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110920004229.GC31273@denkmatte.private.newton.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31uvcnlob.fsf@jhcloos.com>

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On 19:42 Mon 19 Sep 2011, James Cloos wrote:
> >>>>> "TK" == Thomas Kahle <tomka@gentoo.org> writes:
> 
> TK> any objections against removing scilab-4 from the tree?  
> TK> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360601
> 
> How about waiting until a *working* ebuild exists for scilab-5?

Honestly, I don't see that happening.  But we can wait and see.

> The existing one has never worked (on ~amd64 or ~x86).

Same here, but it's a couple of months since I tried.  My problem with
giganto packages like this: It's easy to download the precompiled binary
that just works, but tilting at windmills to enforce the Gentoo way.

Cheers,
Thomas

-- 
Thomas Kahle
http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-20  0:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-19 17:55 [gentoo-science] scilab-4 removal from the tree Thomas Kahle
2011-09-19 18:36 ` My Th
2011-09-19 18:50   ` Thomas Kahle
2011-09-19 19:35     ` My Th
2011-09-19 23:42     ` James Cloos
2011-09-20  0:43       ` Thomas Kahle
2011-09-19 23:42 ` James Cloos
2011-09-20  0:42   ` Thomas Kahle [this message]

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