On Fri, 8 Jul 2016 10:55:49 -0500 »Q« wrote: > 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.
Good idea, since we have attic no more, and users need this [1]. While any removed package can be extracted from git, this is not a trivial operation and is definitely harder then fetching filesv from overlay. But the problem is that this way overlay will become completely broken in terms of both QA and security. [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/660e7f65e1b4d3f932aacfb69e273e3b Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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