Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-zope maintenance
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:04:01
Message-Id: 4E5B8002.4050006@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-zope maintenance by Dirkjan Ochtman
1 On 08/29/11 13:33, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
2 > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:23, Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o> wrote:
3 >> Which Zope team is that? Would that be you? Having an overlay with
4 >> updated packages certainly sounds good, but it would be nice to have
5 >> some indication of what we're waiting for, or how long we're waiting.
6 >
7 > Arfrever, it would be nice if you could answer these questions.
8 >
9 > If there's no answer, we should just go ahead and last-rite the entire category.
10 >
11 > BTW, what are the mechanics WRT removing an entire category? Should we
12 > keep the category around for the benefit of overlays, or are there
13 > mechanisms in place so that overlays can setup their own categories?
14
15 Overlays can easily define their own categories if needed, so pruning
16 the whole directory should not be a problem. Only profiles/categories
17 might need to be adapted.