Brad Laue wrote:[Tue Nov 18 2003, 11:02:43AM EST]
> 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. 

This comes down to a scalability issue.  There's ~3 people working on
alpha, and ~2 working on ia64.  The current KEYWORDS system has definite
scalability problems becuase it expects each arch team to keep up with
all the ebuilds in the tree.  Until the system changes, developers might
need to keep ebuilds around longer than they would otherwise like.

> 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.

It's really helpful that you do that.  Thanks.

> 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.

Yes, that's a huge help.  It allows us to prioritize ebuilds that users
are actually using..

Aron

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