New comment by maciozo on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/44422#issuecomment-1659126343

Comment:
>At least from changes I've seen, I can name https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/40044 (PolyMC) as a package deemed undesirable (in that case, rogue upstream) with a then active userbase that also didn't get a message when removed despite the replacement being a not fully compatible fork.

That doesn't seem like a particularly desirable precedent to me. At least in that case the package was somewhat transparently replaced with a fork, and the reasoning for it had some merit. Here, packages are just being unilaterally removed from people's PCs with no warning and no alternative offered, for what seem to be somewhat opinionated reasons.

I get that Void isn't exactly meant to be a begginer-friendly distro, but I'm sure there are users out there who just blindly run `xi -Syu`, reasonably assuming that the OS won't suddenly remove potentially important software from their PCs.