I don't think that officially supported ebuilds that are officially unsupported is a good idea. If they were officially supported then they would in effect never be removed, just simply placed somewhere else. It seems to me that this should be a third party project if anything.
On 12/19/06, Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
antarus posted recently to the user reps forum asking for feedback on how to solve user experience glitches like the recent xmms removal. (I do *not* want to discuss that thanks ;) The thread is at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-516142.html richfish came up with the simplest solution to the problem of old ebuilds: > The best possible case I can think of for most of these ebuilds is to push > them upstream assuming upstream is alive and willing to maintain them > (possibly with some user-supplied patches now and then). Users would then > be responsible for installing the ebuilds to their local overlays, and > filing bugs with upstream if something doesn't work. In fact, my strong > preference in this is to just tell users to use their local overlay > regardless of whether upstream accepts ownership of the ebuilds. I would > even suggest we encourage this by providing a dedicated forum and IRC > channel for users to help each other with their 'private' ebuilds. > This requires a new IRC channel and forum (one suggestion was `sunset' 8) so I thought I'd post in here to see what everyone thought. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
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