On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:41:09 -0400 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That's actually how I read the first email, was that it's really > > the majority of the _minor_ packages that get completely neglected, > > and just sits in the tree for months or years marked unstable > > because nobody cares. The people that use it have marked it ~arch > > a long time ago in their package.keywords because they know it > > works just fine. > > Well, we would hope that people using the package would file a bug, > but this obviously doesn't always happen. It indeed doesn't - I have quite a few friends who complained to me that package xxx is still in ~arch despite being in the tree for a long time, and when I asked them if they filed a bug to ask for stabilization, they reply that they didn't know it could be done this way, or worse, that they simply do not have time for such thing (!!!). -- Andrej -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list