On 14 March 2010 06:09, James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> wrote: >>>>>> "BdG" == Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> writes: > > BdG> Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. > > Nonsense. That attitude only servers to harm the user base.
You're wrong. It serves to protect our users from potentially broken and vulnerable packages. It ascertains a Quality Assurance level that we and our users can be comfortable with. > Leaving them in does not. It does, as it opens the users up to unknown security vulnerabilities and increasing brokenness as bugs are not addressed. If Gentoo would stop caring about QA, then we'd be wasting our time working on making this a better distro. Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) ______________________________________________________
