On Saturday, October 29, 2016 11:44:39 PM EDT M. J. Everitt wrote: > > Whilst this may potentially be a contentious topic (and one that g-p-m > has partially attempted to address) there has been a mildly aggressive > policy applied to treecleaning, whereby if something is old and missing > a maintainer and/or has even minor issues it is likely be nuked without > so much as anyone attempting to solve the issues. Granted, all too often > there IS nobody to address any issues, or outstanding bugs,
Its a slippery slope Gentoo is going down. The lack of man power causes many things to go un-maintained. I will not comment on tree-cleaning being right or wrong. Essentially what is taking place at a high level is packages over all are being whittled down package by package due to a lack of man power. Eventually it could reach some equilibrium that the amount of packages is reduced to match the amount of man power to maintain. However it also runs the risk of another downward spiral side effect. The less packages in tree, the less may come to Gentoo. Which may further lead to lack of man power issues in the future. Which means more packages to un- maintained and more have to be cleaned. There is only 1 long term solution to this issue which is to increase man power. Otherwise you end up with such a reduced package set it diminishes the over all benefit. Gentoo would become a further niche distro moving further from mainstream. Or find a way to further automate package maintenance and such, but even that has its limitations. Man power at some point must increase. The amount of software is only increasing worldwide daily exponentially. -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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