Removed from the tree today:
- dev-perl/Data-Dumper – Not sure what I was taking when this ebuild was initially added. Data::Dumper has been a core perl module for just about ever, and isn’t maintained outside the perl core install (in fact, the core install of >=5.8.6 provides a newer version than you can download independantly, and at the very least >=5.8.2 all provide the same version). No deps left in the tree for it, so unceremoniously it has been removed. If you have a real problem with this, might I recommend emerge perl? 😉
I’d intented to do more. I have four other packages with questionable ebuilds: Attribute-Handlers, Class-ISA, Getopt-Long, and Net-Ping, all four of which are provided by the core perl install with no sign of a non-core install update around that I’d like to remove once I get a hold of the long list of related package maintainers. I’m probably going to bite the bullet and revisit bugger‘s source code so I can handle my meta bug more easily. I’ve collected all of the needed information, I know what to say, I just need to post the half dozen or so bugs and dep the parent.
Trying out tomboy per recommendation – not quite what I was looking for, though I’ll keep it up for a few more days. I like having things more listable and checkable, and this just seems like a hyperlinks notepad on acid – cool, but not quite hitting that itch.
Alas – so many bugs, so many projects, so very little free time…