On 01/02/2013 12:11, Rich Freeman wrote: > I do think it is a loss for Gentoo if we start removing packages > simply because they don't change (which is all a dead upstream means - > it isn't always a bad thing).
The problem is that a package that doesn't change _will_ bitrot. Full stop. Trying to pretend that the problem does not exist, that an unmaintained package is just as fine as a maintained one is stupid and shortsighted, and explains why I have 1600 bugs open... -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes [email protected] — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
