On 6/7/16 11:37 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:56:16 +0100 > "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.ever...@iee.org> wrote: > >> On 07/06/16 16:44, james wrote: >>> On 06/07/2016 09:25 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>>> Wouldn't removing it from repositories.xml have pretty much the same >>>> effect? >>>> >>>> Also, i think we should make the unreviewed repo public then, so >>>> people can get the newest ebuilds. >>> >>> Perhaps a deprecation period of a year, with a gentoo wiki page that >>> lists the packages found @sunrise, is a good idea? >>> >>> >> A year is a very short time in software terms .. maybe 5 years ... !! >> But freezing it, with the intention of removing from repos.xml in 5 >> years time seems reasonable to me. > > I'm against keeping it in repos.xml for more than a month, considering > the current (huge) state of breakage it is in. Other repositories with > similar breakage were already removed. >
It should not be used as an overlay. It has not been updated for nearly a year and if its frozen as an archive then all the more reason. There should also be huge warnings in the README. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA
