> There is one use-case that I am aware of against removing old versions of 4.*, > but I haven't seen it in the tree for a while - other folk might be more aware > of it: Ability to take DB files from other systems and read them sanely / > migrate them to new versions.
Yep, subversion comes to mind on this one. Though, this isn't forcing anyone to uninstall their db versions, but simply removing them from the portage. Granted, it does make it more difficult to migrate db version backends, but since the ebuilds in question will be available from the CVS attic on cvsweb, I think the benefit outweighs the harm in removing them. > Here's a set of stuff of everything that looks for a specific version of 4.*. Thanks for this list. It seems that the removal of 4.0* and 4.1* are probably okay, based on this information. I imagine we'll go through a normal 30 day package.mask/removal procedure when the time comes. Caleb -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
