Michał Górny schrieb:
I think it is a valid concern that removal of packages may sometimes be
overzealous, and to better keep packages in the tree as long as they are
useful and workarounds exist for build/runtime problems. Just in case of
gnash there is really no benefit in keeping it.
It may make sense if there is some developer caring enough to actually
put those workarounds in the ebuild, rather than expecting every single
user trying to build it find them himself (and hope he's got all
of them, and the right set).
If you mean, putting these workarounds as elog message, maybe.
But putting them as code is not always possible, as it may require changes in
other packages or similar.
And sometimes, there were building and working packages masked for removal
just because they lacked a maintainer.
Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
