On Fri, 8 Jul 2016 10:11:45 -0500 William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> There is also an overlay for packages that are removed from the > official tree [1], and imo that is where old software should go if it > doesn't have an active maintainer. > > I don't know why we haven't been using this, but using it more than we > have makes a lot of sense. Completely aside from the question of criteria for removing stuff from the main tree, it would make a lot of users happy if every package which *is* removed were added to the graveyard overlay.