cilly wrote: > Hi all, > > I think it's worth to discuss the `behaviour of removing ebuilds from > the tree`.
Currently it's up to the developer, some people are more conservative, some prefer to get rid of certain stuff asap. You should differentiate between ~ and stable ones btw... > > In my opinion, ebuilds are removed too soon, i.e. if an ebuild gets updated > the older ebuild gets removed in the same turn. This happens only when: - there are security concerns - the old ebuild was there till ages and the new one had been in ~ since ages. > In my opinion, it is better to keep the older ebuild around for a while since > if there are some bugs in the newer ebuild, users are able to downgrade > easily. that's is quite up to the specific applications IMHO. > What do you think? I'd leave it up to the developer, nothing is lost in gentoo and fetching from the attic isn't exactly difficult. Still probably having a note to make people aware of that could be useful since the problem you pointed doesn't require any more work to be solved. > PS: other topics to be discussed `Not to modify ebuilds which are > already in the tree... even if masked` what do you think? I probably understood what you mean and well, no, I don't think is a good idea. lu - that prefers less rules and more people aware. -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
