Am 14.02.2013 17:30, schrieb Markos Chandras:
> On 14 February 2013 15:57, Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 14/02/13 10:33 AM, George Shapovalov wrote:
>>>> On Thursday 14 February 2013 21:03:55 Ben de Groot wrote:
>>>>> On 14 February 2013 20:25, George Shapovalov <geo...@gentoo.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Um, what about the sunset overlay? IIRC, it was used/intended
>>>>>> primarily for this purpose. Is it still alive? (haven't heard
>>>>>> it mentioned in a while and layman seems to list onyl sunrise)
>>>>>
>>>>> You probably mean kde-sunset, which is specifically for
>>>>> Qt3/KDE3. But I guess we could consider merging kde-sunset with
>>>>> graveyard.
>>>> Nope, plain sunset. At the time when the sunrise overlay was making
>>>> a lot of noise (some 5 years ago?) there was a talk about sunset
>>>> one. I don't remember details any more and it is absent from
>>>> layman, so it could have been just talk without anything following
>>>> it..
>>>>
>>>>
> 
> I remember it too (and I think i mentioned it a couple of weeks ago).
>  I believe the sunset overlay was deprecated in favour of the attic
> being made more easily available (also probably because no dev's had
> time to maintain/administer it)
> 
> 
>>
> 
> Last time I checked, the sunrise overlay was very much alive. It's
> purpose is not to store old ebuilds (per se). It keeps high-quality
> (because they are reviewed by devs and users before they appear in the
> main branch) ebuilds that are not in portage tree. I think that the
> sunrise devs would reject ebuilds that got removed from tree for
> obvious reasons (dead upstream, broken etc etc)
> 

Read again. It's sunset, not sunrise. :-)

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