On Saturday 02 July 2005 02:49 pm, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:35:01PM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > Although this would require a request to someone with shell access to
> > the CVS box, it would preserve all the history of the moved packages.
> > The loss of history is (IMO) the _primary_ problem of moving packages.
>
> I'd like to address this item separately.
>
> The history is NEVER lost in a package move in the current fashion.
> It's just split into multiple locations - it's a bit harder to look
> back through it, but it isn't lost in any way.

umm, that is until someone thinks it's a good idea to delete old stuff

case in point, wtf is app-games in gentoo-x86 ?  we split all the games 
packages into games-* categories but we lost all the history because 
app-games is now gone
-mike
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