On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 03/19/2012 11:00 PM, David Leverton wrote:
>>
>> On 19 March 2012 06:05, Samuli Suominen<ssuomi...@gentoo.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> dev-cpp/cppserv would need working dev-cpp/sptk and we have none:
>>>
>>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402149#c9
>>>
>>> the only working versions got marked as "obsolete" by upstream due to
>>> "undisclosed reasons" whatever that means
>>>
>>
>> Not that I personally care, but it seems like this could be "solved"
>> by just removing fltk support, rather than nuking it completely.
>>
>
> don't think we should be "clinging on" the unmaintained packages that badly
> from general overview of the sptk homepage, the whole point of the package
> seems to be around fltk (and thus, X)
>
> and from broader view... sometimes it seems the politics around package
> removal has become a burden, rather than a tool
>

What politics?

-A

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