On Fri, 8 Jul 2016 19:17:44 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > > 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.
That's no different from ebuilds in the CVS attic. They were no longer maintained and may even have been removed for security reasons, or even failure to build, but they were still made available through the attic. -- Neil Bothwick
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