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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: the graveyard overlay
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 15:56:16
Message-Id: 20160708105549.37577cc9@sepulchrave.remarqs
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] the graveyard overlay by William Hubbs
1 On Fri, 8 Jul 2016 10:11:45 -0500
2 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > There is also an overlay for packages that are removed from the
5 > official tree [1], and imo that is where old software should go if it
6 > doesn't have an active maintainer.
7 >
8 > I don't know why we haven't been using this, but using it more than we
9 > have makes a lot of sense.
10
11 Completely aside from the question of criteria for removing stuff from
12 the main tree, it would make a lot of users happy if every package
13 which *is* removed were added to the graveyard overlay.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: the graveyard overlay Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>