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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
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 16:41:30
Message-Id: CAG2jQ8h99Cq8+khxLgOkaDSk5uukyrvuHDYm1eQpyCMJ70dz1w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: Graveyard overlay (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/x2, games-strategy/x2-demo) by Florian Philipp
1 On 14 February 2013 16:37, Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote:
2 > Am 14.02.2013 17:30, schrieb Markos Chandras:
3 >> On 14 February 2013 15:57, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
4 >> On 14/02/13 10:33 AM, George Shapovalov wrote:
5 >>>>> On Thursday 14 February 2013 21:03:55 Ben de Groot wrote:
6 >>>>>> On 14 February 2013 20:25, George Shapovalov <george@g.o>
7 >>>>>> wrote:
8 >>>>>>> Um, what about the sunset overlay? IIRC, it was used/intended
9 >>>>>>> primarily for this purpose. Is it still alive? (haven't heard
10 >>>>>>> it mentioned in a while and layman seems to list onyl sunrise)
11 >>>>>>
12 >>>>>> You probably mean kde-sunset, which is specifically for
13 >>>>>> Qt3/KDE3. But I guess we could consider merging kde-sunset with
14 >>>>>> graveyard.
15 >>>>> Nope, plain sunset. At the time when the sunrise overlay was making
16 >>>>> a lot of noise (some 5 years ago?) there was a talk about sunset
17 >>>>> one. I don't remember details any more and it is absent from
18 >>>>> layman, so it could have been just talk without anything following
19 >>>>> it..
20 >>>>>
21 >>>>>
22 >>
23 >> I remember it too (and I think i mentioned it a couple of weeks ago).
24 >> I believe the sunset overlay was deprecated in favour of the attic
25 >> being made more easily available (also probably because no dev's had
26 >> time to maintain/administer it)
27 >>
28 >>
29 >>>
30 >>
31 >> Last time I checked, the sunrise overlay was very much alive. It's
32 >> purpose is not to store old ebuilds (per se). It keeps high-quality
33 >> (because they are reviewed by devs and users before they appear in the
34 >> main branch) ebuilds that are not in portage tree. I think that the
35 >> sunrise devs would reject ebuilds that got removed from tree for
36 >> obvious reasons (dead upstream, broken etc etc)
37 >>
38 >
39 > Read again. It's sunset, not sunrise. :-)
40 >
41
42 Oops indeed :-/
43
44 --
45 Regards,
46 Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
47 http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang