On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:33:12 +0100
Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 12 March 2010 16:59, Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Or like the old gtk-1: completely abandon the package and let the
> > consumers upgrade slowly. IMHO this is the less annoying approach for
> > everyone.
> 
> Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. That's
> why we have a treecleaners project.

The treecleaners project is tasked with keeping these packages working, and
removing them only if there is no other alternative.


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