# Michał Górny (2024-02-27)
# dev-python/boto is dead, with last release in 2018. It has been
# replaced by dev-python/boto3. It carries a ton of patches and still
# depends on dev-python/nose.
#
# app-admin/salt is its only remaining reverse dependency. The ebuild
# is of very low quality.
#
#
The salt ebuild has been refactored to remove the tests and modules that
require dev-python/boto, and the mask has been removed.
Salt has a lot of users, and it would be doing them a disservice to
remove it from the tree.
On 2024-02-27 07:42, Michał Górny wrote:
# Michał Górny (2024-02-27)
Hi Patrick,
The salt ebuild has been refactored to remove the tests and modules that
require dev-python/boto, and the mask has been removed.
Salt has a lot of users, and it would be doing them a disservice to
remove it from the tree.
Salt is not trivial to distribute, because upstream wants