On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net> wrote: > Am 14.02.2013 00:07, schrieb Brian Dolbec: >> On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 20:46 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: >>> Am 13.02.2013 20:19, schrieb Michael Sterrett: >>>> # Michael Sterrett <mr_bon...@gentoo.org> (13 Feb 2013) >>>> # No longer licensed for sale upstream. >>>> # Masked for removal on 20130315. >>>> games-strategy/x2 >>>> games-strategy/x2-demo >>>> >>> >>> Sure, I cannot buy it anymore. But what about people who already own it >>> and would like to re-emerge it or migrate it between PCs? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Florian Philipp >>> >>> >> >> >> Easy, just copy the ebuild and any patches in the files subdir to a >> local overlay. >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml >> >> That is one of the reasons things are masked for at least 30 days before >> removal. To give affected people some time to deal with it however they >> want. >> We can't be expected to keep old stuff around forever :/ >> >> > > Which brings us back to the old discussion on what good it does for one > person to do the work of masking and removing and N persons to do the > work of creating an overlay instead of just letting the package rot in > the tree until it is actually broken. But I guess everyone's pretty > tired of that discussion so let's leave it at that. >
I'll say the same thing I've said in the past; it doesn't look like anyone in the dev community is interested in it. There is nothing preventing anyone from doing it; so feel free to set it up and show us up! -A
