On Friday 03 April 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Wyatt Epp <wyatt....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Greets, > > > > So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that > > I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like > > the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show one mask at a > > time. So I was curious...what have people that are not myself and my > > mate noticed that is mildly irritating and disruptive to the Gentoo > > experience? > > > > Cheers, > > Wyatt > > Portage removing packages from my system that I need to keep the > system working only because someone outside my house decides it's not > going to be supported anymore. This has caused me lots of problems > over the years, most specifically with ATI drivers. New versions do > not support the S-Video outputs I need on my Myth frontend boxes so I > cannot build a Gentoo system from scratch anymore. > > Something I'm using gets removed and I cannot upgrade due to the > hardware that's running. Then I have to go find an old version in the > attic, create an overlay, and start supporting that overlay by hand. > Easy for others, I think, but somehow not for me. > > I'd really appreciate it if something would create the overlay for me > and move code out of distfiles and into my private overlay so t I > didn't ever lose anything. If I chose to delete it later, that's my > business, but it would happen on my schedule. > > Thanks, > Mark
portage does not remove the packages from the distfiles directory and all ebuilds are available from cvs even years after they have been removed.
