On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: <SNIP> > > portage does not remove the packages from the distfiles directory and all > ebuilds are available from cvs even years after they have been removed. >
First comment is incorrect, or correct if you're doing your regular Volker routine and think I should have said emerge instead of portage. None the less, packages that have been depreciated are first removed from portage and then when I run eix-sync are removed from my system, and have been for years now. ebuilds are available long after tha package has been depreciated. Probably the actual code is available also. That said, once given to me and put into use on my system it shouldn't be taken off my system without permission just because someone doesn't want to support it. (Even for security reasons. Even that should be my business, but I understand others will have other opinions on this part.) Even a flag that stated what revision I don't want to have removed would be better than what goes on right now. - Marl
