On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:13 AM Brian Dolbec <[email protected]> wrote: > I know I've been out of touch for almost the last year, but why remove > sha512? the current code it is optional for either of the two or both. > > What is gentoo now supplying primarily? > > If any change is to be made, I think it should be made as a plugin so > the base code doesn't need to be changed as things change to the > checksum of the day...
releng.git does not use this functionality at all -- it was added by Rick for Pentoo, and Pentoo is now using only blake2. I'd like to remove it because catalyst is already a monstrosity of unnecessary and unused functionality. I'm happy to just fork catalyst if others want it to remain this way.
