Hi folks > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Knecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 December 2006 17:16 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?
- snip snip - > > The problem with this view of overlays has been that I do an eix-sync > and find that something I'm currently running been removed from > portage - for whatever reason but mostly it's been security issues or > the developer not wanting to maintain an old version. At that point > it's gone. I cannot put into an overlay what I don't have. Probably > most frustrating has been that I don't know it will be removed until > it's been removed. At that point it's too late to be easy. (Nobody > said Gentoo cannot be easy - right? If they told me that I wouldn't be > able to run it!) ;-) > > I understand that every package is out there in some repository on the > web. I think Neil has pointed me toward it once or twice at least. The > problem is for a user type like me, and yes, I'm *purely* a user type, > it's a bit beyond my skillset today to go get it and build the overlay > myself. Is there, or could there be, a method for giving say 7 days notice for when an ebuild is going to be removed? Or, what about keeping removed ebuilds somewhere on the gentoo website or someplace for say 28 days. So if you want it, you can grab it and put it in an overlay or wherever. As far as I am aware the GWN lists ebuilds to be removed but are these only for dead programs rather than specific ebuilds/versions? > > I'm 51, retired from Silicon Valley and now trade stocks for a living. > Unfortunately my trading platform is Windows but I'm writing you from > my #1 daytime machine - my AMD64 Gentoo desktop running Gnome - mostly > stable. For fun I write and record music using mostly Linux tools all > on Gentoo. My wife and 14 year old son run Gentoo. My 78 year old > father and 77 year old mother run Gentoo. Gentoo works, even for us > user types. ;-) To continue the trend (or jump on the bandwagon)- I'm 20, Chemistry Student, doing an internship as an analytical/formulation/solid state Chemist for a pharmaceutical company. Unfortunately my 9-5 Mon-Fri box is Windows 2000/Office 2000 based (the response to my request for a *nix box was laughter)but my home server runs CentOS (set and forget for the most part) and my laptop (my main machine) runs Gentoo. Attempts to convert friends and family to Gentoo haven't worked so well although a few have tinkered with Ubuntu liveCDs. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
