On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Steev Klimaszewski <st...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 02:48 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: >> On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:35:22 -0600 >> Steev Klimaszewski <st...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> > Alright, well, I've tried my best, I give up. Instead of having >> > something working we should just remove ebuilds of working packages. >> >> s/should/could/ s/ebuilds/stable keyword or last stable version/ >> >> It is at the maintainer's discretion; and such decision is to make >> it possible for a maintainer to move on when he or she can no longer >> guarantee a working ebuild, to stop being progress-blocked by it. >> > > You know what - this is pure and utter bullshit. Keeping it around for > "slower" arches does NOT block progress. I have intimate knowledge with > what ACTUALLY happens when people pull this bullshit - and that is a > system that I can no longer actually work on. And instead of working > towards a fix that actually works for people who are ACTUALLY affected > by the shitty policy, you hide behind definitions and pedantry. > > I'm now going to take a break from Gentoo development because this > thread has seriously caused my blood to boil based on comments from the > peanut gallery (you) where things don't actually affect your day to day > work, but your actions do affect mine.
I'm with you. I've drafted and thrown away so many replies to Tom in this thread. Thanks for putting up with it, but it's a huge waste of your time.
