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From: Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Graveyard overlay (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/x2, games-strategy/x2-demo)
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:37:53
Message-Id: 511D12D3.10101@binarywings.net
In Reply to: Re: Graveyard overlay (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/x2, games-strategy/x2-demo) by Markos Chandras
1 Am 14.02.2013 17:30, schrieb Markos Chandras:
2 > On 14 February 2013 15:57, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
3 > On 14/02/13 10:33 AM, George Shapovalov wrote:
4 >>>> On Thursday 14 February 2013 21:03:55 Ben de Groot wrote:
5 >>>>> On 14 February 2013 20:25, George Shapovalov <george@g.o>
6 >>>>> wrote:
7 >>>>>> Um, what about the sunset overlay? IIRC, it was used/intended
8 >>>>>> primarily for this purpose. Is it still alive? (haven't heard
9 >>>>>> it mentioned in a while and layman seems to list onyl sunrise)
10 >>>>>
11 >>>>> You probably mean kde-sunset, which is specifically for
12 >>>>> Qt3/KDE3. But I guess we could consider merging kde-sunset with
13 >>>>> graveyard.
14 >>>> Nope, plain sunset. At the time when the sunrise overlay was making
15 >>>> a lot of noise (some 5 years ago?) there was a talk about sunset
16 >>>> one. I don't remember details any more and it is absent from
17 >>>> layman, so it could have been just talk without anything following
18 >>>> it..
19 >>>>
20 >>>>
21 >
22 > I remember it too (and I think i mentioned it a couple of weeks ago).
23 > I believe the sunset overlay was deprecated in favour of the attic
24 > being made more easily available (also probably because no dev's had
25 > time to maintain/administer it)
26 >
27 >
28 >>
29 >
30 > Last time I checked, the sunrise overlay was very much alive. It's
31 > purpose is not to store old ebuilds (per se). It keeps high-quality
32 > (because they are reviewed by devs and users before they appear in the
33 > main branch) ebuilds that are not in portage tree. I think that the
34 > sunrise devs would reject ebuilds that got removed from tree for
35 > obvious reasons (dead upstream, broken etc etc)
36 >
37
38 Read again. It's sunset, not sunrise. :-)

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