On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 02:47 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:44:22 -0800 > "Alec Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Uh... So where do the original problems come from? Are you saying > > > that packages mysteriously start breaking on their own because > > > no-one's maintaining them? > > > > Of course they do > > Ah, right. Because of the magical elf that lives in the CVS server > that mysteriously goes around breaking dependencies when no-one's > looking. > > Yes, a magical elf. Much more plausible than the theory that it's > actually developers screwing up by dropping keywords or best keyworded > version on a package's deps.
Software that is not maintained is known to fail after some time; not because the software changes, but the environment the software has to interact with - but i guess you know that very well. Really, this discussion is completely pointless unless some mips users/developers join in - or aren't there any at all? Matthias
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