On 11/4/20 10:43 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Do you really think that users who just blindly run "emerge > --autounmask-write" are going to be both masking and unmasking > packages by hand (per your other email)? Just by following wiki...
> > And how are they any better off if they do? They just end up in the > exact same state, except now we have zero control over their > experience instead of only a little control. Exactly, we should try to prevent this situation! Glad we agree. > > Then why not do that, instead of removing things? Did you bother reading my reply? There's work being done towards fixing packages which seem to have hope. Now for some of these packages there's been last upstream activity 8 years ago. Is having a -9999 ebuild justified there? Also for some, upstream is dead, gone, making the package totally un-emergeable. Now imagine if we had a snapshot tarball in our mirrors, maybe it wouldn't need to be removed, if it still could be built. -- juippis
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