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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning tree of outdated packages
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:57:02
Message-Id: 201212191856.10480.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning tree of outdated packages by George Shapovalov
1 On Friday 14 December 2012 02:49:08 George Shapovalov wrote:
2 > On Thursday 13 December 2012 12:59:40 Jory A. Pratt wrote:
3 > > But to keep ebuilds for ex. gcc around for over 5 years is just insane.
4 >
5 > I would argue, that stuff like gcc and some other system packages should be
6 > kept forewer. One (working) version per SLOT is enough, but these should
7 > just stay.
8
9 i do keep them forever. just for the old stuff, i move them to the toolchain
10 overlay.
11 -mike

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