On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 01:17:46PM +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jeremy Olexa <darks...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > Can this practice of adding m-n packages to gentoo-x86 be stopped? If you >> > add it, take responsibility for it, please. If you don't want to take >> > responsibility for it, at least find a team that is willing to look after >> > it. >> > >> >> If you prohibit people from doing that, they'll just commit it >> normally, and then remove themselves a week later. >> >> I propose that we should be more aggressive about package.masking (for >> removal) all maintainer-needed packages from the tree by doing that >> one month after they become maintainer-needed. If someone doesn't >> volunteer to take care of it, it probably wasn't important anyway. >> >> > Uhm no. The fact that nobody takes care of it doesn't necessarily mean > that the package is broken and that it should be removed >
I never said that such packages were broken. I'm saying that if no one wants to maintain them, they probably aren't needed by anyone, and we should clean such cruft from the tree. If they *are* needed by someone, then those folks should come forward to maintain it. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
