Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> User installs foo-1.1-r1 >> Developer makes foo-1.1-r1.1 >> foo-1.1* is removed from the tree >> User syncs > > An updates-like mechanism would help here, since the updates could > persist longer.
Unfortunately, this is not an option: I assure you that you do not want to keep the updates in dependencies forever; their number is simply too large. This would mean the portage tree will keep growing in an insane manner: It "almost" means to force every user to keep the *full* CVS (or in future maybe git) repository.
