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 1R5oSp-00067N-Ul for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:45:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24B0821C0B3; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:45:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 939C721C065 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:45:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (cpc2-cmbg6-0-0-cust419.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com [81.107.33.164]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tomka) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9BB9F1B4013 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:45:05 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:42:29 +0100 From: Thomas Kahle To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] scilab-4 removal from the tree Message-ID: <20110920004229.GC31273@denkmatte.private.newton.cam.ac.uk> References: <20110919175551.GV31273@denkmatte.private.newton.cam.ac.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CRrRoVXEpX/Dc4YP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d468e0e539b496076f669eadd1e7edcf --CRrRoVXEpX/Dc4YP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 19:42 Mon 19 Sep 2011, James Cloos wrote: > >>>>> "TK" =3D=3D Thomas Kahle writes: >=20 > TK> any objections against removing scilab-4 from the tree? =20 > TK> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D360601 >=20 > 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 --=20 Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ --CRrRoVXEpX/Dc4YP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQEIAAYFAk534XUACgkQQYXt1pFHaaF/MAP/WTGDRGoGUZp+YGPazyImppE8 Y8/Ydr9yCAQbAMv+ZeBBZBuXKSIrw5bvtzrBuadyYtkAQenAJKTTJE5WthB1Nk0E 5zj9RwoZfBIyGUuBMzhpFrmvNXw6VkJi1XkxkcRbQ3sEqxvqHxatVIDvn/DwEXIw v4kwMyJ9fM+pZypv1IY= =2oQl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CRrRoVXEpX/Dc4YP--