Most of the maintainers of old packages are no longer around, for one thing.
Additionally, the distribution ended up picking up a lot of baggage and has a ton of baked in issues.
Much of the packages in Nekoware are so horribly broken that they don't meet the quality standards and I don't want to waste people's time on it. There were also a number of retarded decisions that were baked into the distribution, such as the path names and prefixes.
We have to start fresh. I already have people who are building things like ansible scripts for IRIX, and I'm experimenting with the best way to bootstrap the system from nothing.
The reason we're targeting a smaller number of packages is to ensure that we always have sufficient staff to keep it maintained. Nekoware was spread too thinly.
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