Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy/thoughts for ebuilds that survive only because of mirror caches?

[Georgi Georgiev]

maillog: 31/12/2003-13:10:31(-0500): Michael Cummings types
> Should probably start by saying I'm not trying to ruffle any feathers
> here. I recently started looking into cleaning up dev-perl of ebuilds
> who's tarballs or no longer available at the SRC_URI. Part way into it I
> discovered that although the SRC no longer supports/contains the
> tarball, the ebuild itself still functions because the tarball has been
> mirrored on the gentoo mirror cache's. So I started wondering - how
> many other ebuilds fit the bill?
>
> My methods were hopefully not too questionable - I did a scan of the
> portage tree, attempted as best as possible to replicate the creation of
> the P, PV, PN, MY_P, MY_PV, etc. variables, and then took the listings for
> the SRC_URI's in

Isn't it easier to use "emerge -pf"?

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