On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 4:01 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > This works unless you are talking about packages in @system. > I do see core packages on these arches also languish in ~ for months > with open stable requests. > > The only way to handle one of those would be to remove the old version > and let their deptree break until they catch up. >
In terms of direct impact, I agree. Though, I think the hope would be that if enough non-@system packages get pruned they would have more time for the @system ones. The concept of a deptree also breaks down with @system since we tend to not specify these dependencies explicitly. -- Rich
