From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:50:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810112250.23745.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081011185337.GA6796@eriks>
On Saturday 11 October 2008 20:53:37 Erik Hahn wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:24:03PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > I'm looking into ivman and pmount for automounting amongst other things
> > while using e17.
> >
> > ivman was last updated Feb 2007 according to the official sourceforge
> > page, and the maintainer is listed as "????". 18 months is a long time,
> > so this package looks like it's unmaintained.
>
> Does software rot when it's unmaintained or why is that a problem?
>
> The only problem I can see are unfixed bugs but these exist in
> maintained packages as well.
ivman is closely tied in with hal and dbus, both of which have a history of
hitting users with incompatibilities. I'd rather not deal with those issues
for this usage, and reserve my willingness to bug-hunt for other areas
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-11 11:24 [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman Alan McKinnon
2008-10-11 12:59 ` Florian Philipp
2008-10-11 21:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-11 13:18 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-10-11 21:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-11 21:40 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-10-11 21:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-11 18:53 ` Erik Hahn
2008-10-11 20:24 ` Norberto Bensa
2008-10-11 20:53 ` Erik Hahn
2008-10-11 21:01 ` Dale
2008-10-11 21:14 ` Alex Schuster
2008-10-11 22:52 ` Dale
2008-10-12 7:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-12 9:34 ` Dale
2008-10-11 20:58 ` Dale
2008-10-11 21:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-11 22:56 ` Dale
2008-10-12 21:47 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2008-10-14 15:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2008-10-14 20:11 ` Dale
2008-10-14 15:05 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-10-14 20:13 ` Dale
2008-10-11 20:50 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
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