On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> > > Maybe a "sunset" overlay with old obsolete ebuilds to complement the > "sunrise" overlay of things-yet-to-hit portage?
I like the idea but does it solve the root-cause issue - whatever that might really be - for portage maintainers removing ebuilds and code in the first place? If it was in the sunset overlay then we'd say they don't have to support it anymore, which is fine with me, but I'd still be able to get it which would work. There needs to be a resting place for the code also, not just the ebuilds. If that's on my system, somewhere, then that's fine. I just need to know where to go to get it if my drive crashes and backups fail. If I added this overlay does that significantly increase what I see when I do eix ati-drivers? If so then maybe there should be a filter to only show what I want to see in the sunset overlay and not everything that's there? I do like the idea though. thanks, Mark
