On Monday 05 June 2006 15:58, Luis Medinas wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 21:22 +0200, Wernfried Haas wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 07:03:57PM +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
> > > today I would like to propose a few default keywords for removal. They
> > > are outdated and no longer needed on current systems:
> >
> > What do you want to remove, the use flags themselves or just turn them
> > off in the profiles?
> >
> > > -xmms - xmms depends on gtk-1 and has been superseeded by
> > > audacious/bmpx
> >
> > xmms is still in the tree? People (ok, at least me ;-) ) still use it?
> > I don't mind if it has to go and there are alternatives, but why would
> > you just want to remove its use flag and not the package itself?
> > If it needs to go, either dump all of it or nothing.
>
> Xmms will be removed soon... Lot's of users still use xmms mostly
> because it has many plugins that others don't. Xmms is still stable but
> the upstream is dead so it won't take our patchset. In the end of this
> year i would like to remove xmms and all plugins but before i need to
> prepare users for this changes and clean some maintainer-wanted bugs for
> plugins.

i think removing xmms is inappropriate at this time or in the near future
-mike

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