On 23 January 2014 08:07, David Tardon <dtardon(a)redhat.com> wrote:
You seem to be operating under a delusion that, if someone's
package is
forcibly dropped, (s)he will automatically seek comaintainership of
another package "to fill the vacuum". That is not very likely. What is
likely, however, is that (s)he will become angered, orphan the rest of
his/her packages and disappear.
I don't think we need to drop any packages, unless keeping that
package is actually making our life harder in a significant way. What
I think it's makes a lot of sense doing is -hiding- the applications
that are abandonware. Users that really want some low level tool using
GTK-1 already know the package name, and are likely very familiar with
the command line.
Richard