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Re: Work-needing packages report for May 25, 2001



Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> It shouldn't be automatic. Take silo, for instance, which was orphaned
> for a long time; removing that automatically would have been bad for the
> sparc port. However, if you feel like using the automatic report as a
> guideline for which packages we should think of removing, feel free.

If silo *had* been dropped when orphaned, it would have been picked up again
much quicker by someone who wanted to see the sparc port continue, if there
was such a creature. If there wasn't, then what would the sparc port exist
for?
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