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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Firefox 1.5 series will get removed in 30 days
From:       Steev Klimaszewski <steev () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2007-03-29 15:16:59
Message-ID: 460BD86B.8010603 () gentoo ! org
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Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 11:50 +0200, Christian Birchinger wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:23:49PM +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
>>> If you read what you are quoting:
>>>
>>>>> Mozilla will drop support for that series from 24 April 2007 onwards.
>> That's still almost a month + the time no security issues
>> appear. This would be still better.
> 
> How is prolonging the inevitable "better" exactly?
> 
> I understand some people's reluctance, but the Mozilla team *knows*
> they'll have to remove the 1.5 series sometime on or after April 24th,
> anyway.  Why should they bother keeping it in the tree?
> 
Because Portage sucks and it is oh so hard to add it into an overlay...


/me runs



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