On 01-01-20 Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:10:51PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > But what about packages like silo which didn't need really a fix and
> > where no one thaugh about adopting it until I mentioned it's removal
> > here?
> Well, you just refuted your own point. Since someone *did* care about
No.
> it, someone *did* pick it up. If it had really been a garbage package
No, this only happened, since I asked publically on this list for it's
removal. Otherwise if the concept described here would have been in use,
the package would have been purged.
> that no one wanted, why on earth would we want to spend any more
> time/effort/space on it?
Because for example silo is the only way to boot sparc and we don't want
to loose that functionality? And I think that currenlty or in the future
also other important packages like that may appear in the wnpp list and
having the concept with automatical removal, we will loose this
packages, which is not acceptable. And having one or two people taking
care of those packages should be not hard to find.
Ciao
Christian
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