On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:08:35 +0100 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. Or N^4 people downloading ebuilds which serve no purpose whatever. That stacks faster than you think. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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