-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Wednesday 13 Jun 2007 10:11:24 pm Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> Drop it from stable completely, possibly package.mask or move to >> overlay. Why should this closed-source rootkit be in stable? >> > If closed source is the criteria of getting dropped from stable status or > tree, than are we dropping netscape-flash, vmware and NVIDIA etc. as well? >
Nah it's not the only criteria, the focus is on the "rootkit" :) part [1] Also, ion3 was IIRC removed recently also for upstream trying to force new versions against our stable policy. And that was opensource. But maybe Skype is not so pressing to upgrade, just doesn't provide distfiles anymore. Then maybe we don't have to obey, but still it's really questionable if it should be marked stable at all. And yeah I'm a Java dev but at least Java is now open (I admit that the stable VM's in tree are not, yet) and I don't see that coming for Skype. Also Java (and your examples of closed source stuff) are not infamous for the bad stuff mentioned above. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#Criticisms [2] [2] Oh noes I cited wikipedia, unreliable source of arbitrary information. - -- Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGcFKStbrAj05h3oQRArJMAJ9dAajoI7l1tde7/FvKzrubw0TCmgCfYrNj dCiD3UU7fiGY0YRFox/KXfw= =96ut -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
