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From: Lars Weiler <pylon@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites on slots (was: Re: Last Rites - August 27th - September 2nd 2007)
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:59:11
Message-Id: 20070903054919.GD7679@elladan.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last Rites - August 27th - September 2nd 2007 by Andrew Gaffney
1 * Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> [07/09/02 19:11 -0500]:
2 > I'm not so sure. The last rites have historically always been for complete
3 > removals of a package from the tree. Is there any reason to change it? Just
4 > removing an older version of a package from the tree is something that
5 > happens all the time. Do we want to clutter up the GWN (as much as it needs
6 > content sometimes) with this unimportant information?
7
8 Think about apache1, php4, KDE-3, gcc-2.95, etc.
9
10 IMHO they are worth being announced in the last rites
11 section, probably along with a nice upgrade-guide.
12
13 Regards, Lars
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