From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KolXR-0004IA-VA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:58:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BECB4E0334; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:58:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ABE5E0334 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:58:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h31so421758wxd.10 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:58:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=xqbZQABrys1Gb6pkU8SarbawuQ8nwm4UQxvf5Vgu82M=; b=THokucVXOFgorNR6A3yY+DQcGtlIj0ALTnxRij5y07QiH8GurQGDBiPjtHeMNXGsph 44OiGc0NgyAOO+Zj6sYt+SeqO9yUu9GffoQ05am+/bd7NFwKLkL7t6YruM28d+f1KNox 0pnEtuEpkfvWCWc2RQ6fUVcBtMN2+DR57jeOY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bixHEkiQ4+hcNkiZ2/SAjyJD4/rHLdzeatrsU8DQD9T7BTv+yCoS/O76inHl+rpZmc tWgQ33IUbzSO6rmXsBR/Co+KN0QNnM4TuF7jLXcQ5p9Wp/VmoWgrMIXISXlB11muLBhH VlbsJCPx+Alr9i46b8JXbiTBol2iF915nuubQ= Received: by 10.70.77.2 with SMTP id z2mr3790155wxa.16.1223758690465; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:58:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?216.78.70.32? (host-216-78-70-32.jan.bellsouth.net [216.78.70.32]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i11sm4582705wxd.28.2008.10.11.13.58.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:58:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48F1135E.20400@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:58:06 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080928 SeaMonkey/1.1.12 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacements for ivman References: <200810111324.03589.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20081011185337.GA6796@eriks> <20081011172427.rc6mmxjp0kw0oww0@mail.bensa.ar> In-Reply-To: <20081011172427.rc6mmxjp0kw0oww0@mail.bensa.ar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1c6cbf8a-da5e-4a2f-b698-1dc6485bb2f9 X-Archives-Hash: 094bdf657257bdc0e0dcc1bbea88eaea Norberto Bensa wrote: > Quoting Erik Hahn : > >> Does software rot when it's unmaintained or why is that a problem? > > No, but it develops incompatibilities over time... > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > > > I have hal, dbus and ivman installed here. They work fine. Since it works, that may be why it is not being updated. Don't fix what works. ;-) Dale :-) :-)