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From: "Ric de France" <rdefrance@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly?
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:48:48 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <982e82bf0610241748u67b05f1fp794986bc9ce591a2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610240957.22222.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>

On 24/10/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
> And there is a rule about unmaintained packages with dead upstream and working
> successors: they get killed.
>
> Everybody who reads gentoo-dev once in a while knew, that this day would
> come - and nobody should really be surprised.

It appears that the ebuild has been deleted off the portage tree...
What would be the "safe" way to remove this and to move to another
player? Does "emerge -C xmms" still work?

...Ric
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-25  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-24  7:08 [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly? local account for liebichw
2006-10-24  7:57 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-25  0:48   ` Ric de France [this message]
2006-10-25  2:25     ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-10-25  3:43       ` Ric de France
2006-10-25  8:28         ` Neil Bothwick
2006-10-24  8:00 ` Dale
2006-10-24 13:06   ` Bira
2006-10-24 15:14     ` Mark Shields

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