Am 14.02.2013 00:07, schrieb Brian Dolbec: > On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 20:46 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 13.02.2013 20:19, schrieb Michael Sterrett: >>> # Michael Sterrett <[email protected]> (13 Feb 2013) >>> # No longer licensed for sale upstream. >>> # Masked for removal on 20130315. >>> games-strategy/x2 >>> games-strategy/x2-demo >>> >> >> Sure, I cannot buy it anymore. But what about people who already own it >> and would like to re-emerge it or migrate it between PCs? >> >> Regards, >> Florian Philipp >> >> > > > Easy, just copy the ebuild and any patches in the files subdir to a > local overlay. > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml > > That is one of the reasons things are masked for at least 30 days before > removal. To give affected people some time to deal with it however they > want. > We can't be expected to keep old stuff around forever :/ > >
Which brings us back to the old discussion on what good it does for one person to do the work of masking and removing and N persons to do the work of creating an overlay instead of just letting the package rot in the tree until it is actually broken. But I guess everyone's pretty tired of that discussion so let's leave it at that.
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