Hi, I recently noticed it twice, that it seems to be common practice to remove a package without using the methods described in [1], but just dropping it from cvs.
From my observations packages removed without last-rites could be characterized by this: - it was a dependency of another package - this package dropped / incorporated the dependency - no other packages depend on it - there are possible forks or updates, but maintainer doesn't care^W^W has no interest This might work for the main tree, but it won't for overlays, that might also depend on these packages (because they have a patched / older version of your maintained package). Please stop killing user experience or document this "feature" in [1]. Best regards, Manuel [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/ebuild-maintenance/index.html
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