Re: scilab-4 removal from the tree

On 19:42 Mon 19 Sep 2011, James Cloos wrote:
> >>>>> "TK" == Thomas Kahle <tomka@...> writes:
>
> TK> any objections against removing scilab-4 from the tree?  
> TK> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360601
>
> How about waiting until a *working* ebuild exists for scilab-5?

Honestly, I don't see that happening.  But we can wait and see.

> The existing one has never worked (on ~amd64 or ~x86).

Same here, but it's a couple of months since I tried.  My problem with
giganto packages like this: It's easy to download the precompiled binary
that just works, but tilting at windmills to enforce the Gentoo way.

Cheers,
Thomas

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