On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Brad Laue wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 07:40, Ferris McCormick wrote:
> > This wasn't quite what I had in mind when I asked how you wanted to
> > address an apparent problem with mozilla & garbage:
> > (I understand these are probably unrelated problems:  mozilla+garbage &
> > mozilla-stable-ebuild removed, but I can't resist suggesting a
> > conspiracy...:-) .)
> 
> As vapier stated, the ebuild was removed because it is old. It is the
> responsibility of each architecture maintainer to keep the mozilla
> versions up to date. 
>
Not to beat a dead horse, but how can an ebuild that was marked
stable for ia64 four days ago suddenly become obsolete???  That's
a pretty short life span.

> I have asked repeatedly that people do this, as I do not have IA64,
> SPARC, AMD64 or PowerPC systems available to me on which I can build and
> test Mozilla out.
> 
> The userbase can help their respective architectures out by stating that
> a specific version of Mozilla is serviceable on theirs, and ask to have
> it marked 'arch' on their particular CPU type.
> 
> Brad
> 
> 

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