El jue, 13-12-2012 a las 12:31 -0600, Jory A. Pratt escribió: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > As many of us are aware the tree is growing to a size that is really > unacceptable for many. We have many packages that have excessive amounts > of versions laying around that are not used any more. Many of these > packages with excessive revisions most likely do not work with modern > code any longer, or have security exploits or just dead upstreams that > do not support them any longer that have been replaced with newer > packages. Well these packages are around for stable at the moment when a > newer package replaces the old and makes stable branch we need to remove > the dead package. This is nothing but an attempt to start reducing the > size of the tree and supported packages as a whole to improve the > quality of Gentoo as a WHOLE. All packages of course need to be handled > in a manner that works with maintainers/herd and the community as a whole. > > Jory
I think Ago had a script for doing that task... but each team/herd will need to give him permission for cleaning old versions I think ;)
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