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> [...] and if anyone wants to start where we left he |
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> can pick out the ebuild from attic and put into his own overlay where |
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> it might work for him or even put it back to tree fixed. |
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And this is exactly what *cannot* be done after a while: |
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The ebuild is still available by CVS (or maybe git in future), |
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but if there were already a lot of gentoo patches, the tarball with these |
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patches is lost forever. If even upstream is dead, not even the main |
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tarball will be available anymore. |
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> Go for it, i wrote exactly what to do, create vcs/tracker/homepage and |
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> it can stay. |
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And what if somebody decides to do so in a year? |
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E.g. if somebody gets some hardware in a year and needs support of |
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a package which was removed? |
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Or if he was not yet a gentoo user at the time when the package was |
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removed (or absent/busy for a long period)? |
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Then he is lost unless a distribution with bigger resources as gentoo |
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has decided to keep the package. Not really a selling point for gentoo. |
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