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