On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:02:57 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sunday 26 February 2006 22:40, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > The issue is whether you have the right to leave broken packages in | > the tree. I don't see any policy document granting you that right. | | The general consensus over the years has been that if something | cannot be fixed due to portage problems, then we do what necessary to | warn users about it, but keep the package. In this regard also look | at various dependency cycles, and/or use flag dependencies.
The general consensus has been to implement the best available workaround, if one is doable, and just remove the thing where it's not. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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