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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unused ebuild built_with_use cleanup
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:31:46
Message-Id: 200910272231.57686.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Unused ebuild built_with_use cleanup by "Petteri Räty"
1 On Tuesday 27 October 2009 14:46:31 Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > Normally old versions are not kept around as already said if you read
3 > the thread.
4
5 "normal" is not the same thing as "always". unless you're the maintainer, you
6 have no idea whether old versions are kept there on purpose. ive had people
7 delete older versions of packages on me simply because they made this invalid
8 assumption without talking to the maintainer. the rest of the thread is
9 irrelevant as this point was not made.
10
11 a quick check of your list shows wine/uclibc shouldnt be blindly culled.
12
13 > Live ebuilds shouldn't really have been in the original list
14 > with my intended logic. For them I will usually just migrate them to
15 > EAPI 2 like with other packages we have been touching.
16
17 OK
18
19 > Using a tracker bug makes sense if you expect some action from individual
20 > maintainers which is not the case here as they can just leave the job to
21 > people nuking built_with_use like me.
22
23 i dont plan on fixing my ebuilds soonish since this isnt a terribly important
24 issue, but they'll get fixed at some point
25 -mike

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