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The salt ebuild has been refactored to remove the tests and modules that
require dev-python/boto, and the mask has been removed.

Salt has a lot of users, and it would be doing them a disservice to
remove it from the tree.

On 2024-02-27 07:42, Micha? Górny wrote:
> # Micha? Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (2024-02-27)
> # dev-python/boto is dead, with last release in 2018.  It has been
> # replaced by dev-python/boto3.  It carries a ton of patches and still
> # depends on dev-python/nose.
> #
> # app-admin/salt is its only remaining reverse dependency.  The ebuild
> # is of very low quality.
> #
> # Removal on 2024-03-28.  Bug #888235.
> app-admin/salt
> dev-python/pytest-salt-factories
> dev-python/boto
>

Hi Patrick,

> The salt ebuild has been refactored to remove the tests and modules that
> require dev-python/boto, and the mask has been removed.
>
> Salt has a lot of users, and it would be doing them a disservice to
> remove it from the tree.

Salt is not trivial to distribute, because upstream wants us to run
curl -o bootstrap-salt.sh -L https://bootstrap.saltproject.io

Thank you for saving the salt ebuild.
It really has a lot of users.

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Best,
Jonas