Richard Yao schrieb: > These must be maintained indefinitely to provide an upgrade path for > older Gentoo Linux installations. It is rare, but people do upgrade > old installs from time to time. Without some EAPI=1 packages, there is > no path for people to use to upgrade.
The clean upgrade path from 2008.0 (still popular with some hosting companies) has already been destroyed with the removal of python-2.6.5-r3 a couple of months ago. It is up to the maintainers whether they want to invest time and energy into the old packages, and usually they don't. And it is indeed questionable whether users who update less than once every 6 months are worth this investment. (I tend to say yes, but that may just be because many come to #gentoo IRC with the resulting problems.) Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
