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From: Laurence Perkins <lperkins@openeye.net>
To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] seems lots of packages no longer in the tree
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 16:04:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MW2PR07MB405821FCBEA7AA59A5BA1B03D2529@MW2PR07MB4058.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220925211641.612bce51@digimed.co.uk>

>
>with similar recommendations for the other packages you mention, except for oracle-jdk where it recommends alternatives.
>
>
>--
>Neil Bothwick
>
>ISDN: It Still Does Nothing
>

In Oracle's case, they're doing their very best to turn the licensing for every one of their products into a minefield underneath a quagmire with prices only a major corporation can afford.  I'm not surprised nobody wants it around anymore.

LMP


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-26 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-25 14:04 [gentoo-user] seems lots of packages no longer in the tree John Covici
2022-09-25 14:33 ` Arve Barsnes
2022-09-25 15:05   ` John Covici
2022-09-25 14:38 ` Michael Orlitzky
2022-09-25 15:07   ` John Covici
2022-09-25 20:16     ` Neil Bothwick
2022-09-25 21:27       ` John Covici
2022-09-26 16:04       ` Laurence Perkins [this message]

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