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>>>>> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: |
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> gentoo-x86/profiles/updates $ LANG=C ls -1 --sort=time |
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> [long list omitted] |
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> old entries are done in different context (comparing to 2012): |
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> - some packages change names 2 or 3 times |
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> - slots have different meaning |
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> moreover: |
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> - if you set your PORTDIR to different directory you'll get all |
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> that full update. And will break the system. Old profile entries |
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> used to break eclass-manpages and latex-base (due to double |
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> renaming) |
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It's worse: Bad entries in the old files may go unnoticed for a long |
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time. But if such a file is updated for whatever reason, it will be |
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reprocessed on users' systems, including any bad entries contained in |
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it. |
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> Thus the reason for removal is simple: old entries are potentially |
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> buggy as nobody verifies them. |
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I wouldn't even know how to verify them. |
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Let's remove that cruft. We can be extra conservative and keep five |
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years of backlog (i.e. everything from before 2008 would be removed |
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now). |
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Ulrich |
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