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On Fri, 8 Jul 2016 19:17:44 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> > Completely aside from the question of criteria for removing stuff from |
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> > the main tree, it would make a lot of users happy if every package |
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> > which *is* removed were added to the graveyard overlay. |
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> Good idea, since we have attic no more, and users need this [1]. |
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> While any removed package can be extracted from git, this is not |
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> a trivial operation and is definitely harder then fetching filesv |
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> from overlay. |
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> But the problem is that this way overlay will become completely |
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> broken in terms of both QA and security. |
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That's no different from ebuilds in the CVS attic. They were no longer |
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maintained and may even have been removed for security reasons, or even |
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failure to build, but they were still made available through the attic. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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