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On 09:34 Tue 04 Jul , Nick Rout wrote: |
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> On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:05:30 -0700 |
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> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > More importantly (to me) is that when looking at a distro like this |
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> > what are the issues with leaving an older revision in portage? I |
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> > don't see what the maintainance issues are. It's been a working ebuild |
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> > for a long time. Why remove it. Just leave it there. |
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> How far back should it go? Should we leave beta versions of firefox in |
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> portage? How about kde 1? How bloody big do you want the portage tree to |
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> be? How about when some dependency is no longer compatible with myth |
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> 0.18 ? |
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More importantly, there was a security issue with the version that was |
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removed. |
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