Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning tree of outdated packages

[Pacho Ramos]

El jue, 13-12-2012 a las 12:31 -0600, Jory A. Pratt escribió:
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> As many of us are aware the tree is growing to a size that is really
> unacceptable for many. We have many packages that have excessive amounts
> of versions laying around that are not used any more. Many of these
> packages with excessive revisions most likely do not work with modern
> code any longer, or have security exploits or just dead upstreams that
> do not support them any longer that have been replaced with newer
> packages. Well these packages are around for stable at the moment when a
> newer package replaces the old and makes stable branch we need to remove
> the dead package. This is nothing but an attempt to start reducing the
> size of the tree and supported packages as a whole to improve the
> quality of Gentoo as a WHOLE. All packages of course need to be handled
> in a manner that works with maintainers/herd and the community as a whole.
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> Jory

I think Ago had a script for doing that task... but each team/herd will
need to give him permission for cleaning old versions I think ;)