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Richard Yao schrieb: |
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> These must be maintained indefinitely to provide an upgrade path for |
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> older Gentoo Linux installations. It is rare, but people do upgrade |
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> old installs from time to time. Without some EAPI=1 packages, there is |
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> no path for people to use to upgrade. |
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The clean upgrade path from 2008.0 (still popular with some hosting |
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companies) has already been destroyed with the removal of |
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python-2.6.5-r3 a couple of months ago. |
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It is up to the maintainers whether they want to invest time and energy |
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into the old packages, and usually they don't. And it is indeed |
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questionable whether users who update less than once every 6 months are |
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worth this investment. (I tend to say yes, but that may just be because |
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many come to #gentoo IRC with the resulting problems.) |
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Best regards, |
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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