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José González Gómez schrieb: |
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> I would like to make a proposal here. What if no longer mantained |
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> ebuilds were marked but not deleted? Let's say you have _x86 in |
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> KEYWORDS for ebuilds/packages no longer mantained, that emerge is |
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> aware of that and can inform us of this and that those ebuilds are |
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> mantained in the portage tree for, let's say, a year WITH NO SECURITY |
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> BACKPORTS on them. This would be kind of a end of life notice that |
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> gives you some time to react. This way you still would be able to use |
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> the ebuild at your own risk, and this wouldn't represent much extra |
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> work load for the Gentoo devs, as the deletion process could be |
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> automatic with the use of some scripts. What do you think? |
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You need package manager support for a new KEYWORD. The simplest |
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solution IMO is setting up a "server" overlay on overlays.gentoo.org. |
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That could be used for keeping old packages around and adding new |
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packages/features that could be interesting in a server environment. |
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cheers |
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Paul |
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