* Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org>: > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 08:39:22PM +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > > On 10/23/2010 04:16 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > > > # Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> (23 Oct 2010) > > > # on behalf of QA team > > > # > > > # Does not work with recent versions of ffmpeg. > > > # Does not work with youtube anymore due to API changes. > > > # Dead upstream. > > > # Removal in 15 days. > > > # Alternatives: > > > # media-video/minitube > > > # media-video/xvideoservicethief > > > media-video/elltube > > > > > > > I think whenever faster than the standard 30 days is used then there > > should be a reason in the mask entry. > > > You need more reasons that those I already mentioned? The package is > broken, can't be fixed in any way, since there is no upstream anymore and > plus there > are more featureful programs to view youtube videos than this one. Imho, the > 30 > days does not make sense here.
If I am not completely out of date, portage doesn't warn you if you have a package installed that is no longer available, meaning the ebuild was removed from your repositories. If you don't sync while the package is masked, you might not realise that you have removed software installed. That might be one reason to keep the package.mask entry longer than 15 days. Or I and the premise are completely wrong, then why don't you remove the package in one week? -- Regards
