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On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 14:46:31 Petteri Räty wrote: |
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>>> Normally old versions are not kept around as already said if you read |
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>>> the thread. |
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>> "normal" is not the same thing as "always". unless you're the maintainer, you |
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>> have no idea whether old versions are kept there on purpose. ive had people |
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>> delete older versions of packages on me simply because they made this invalid |
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>> assumption without talking to the maintainer. the rest of the thread is |
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>> irrelevant as this point was not made. |
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> Yes I have no idea. That's why I asked on gentoo-dev-announce for |
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> maintainers to tell me if they are kept on purpose so the point was made |
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> already at the very start. |
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> Regards, |
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> Petteri |
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I see several of my packages on there as well and there's absolutely |
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no way you're culling them since they have a definite use since you're |
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script clearly failed to take into consideration various profiles and |
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SLOTs. Biggest reason that my packages still use built_with_use is the |
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lack of the --missing option for EAPI=2. |
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Doug Goldstein |