On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 08:59 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > > > gentoo-x86/profiles/updates $ LANG=C ls -1 --sort=time > > [long list omitted] > > > old entries are done in different context (comparing to 2012): > > > - some packages change names 2 or 3 times > > - slots have different meaning > > > moreover: > > > - if you set your PORTDIR to different directory you'll get all > > that full update. And will break the system. Old profile entries > > used to break eclass-manpages and latex-base (due to double > > renaming) > > It's worse: Bad entries in the old files may go unnoticed for a long > time. But if such a file is updated for whatever reason, it will be > reprocessed on users' systems, including any bad entries contained in > it. > > > Thus the reason for removal is simple: old entries are potentially > > buggy as nobody verifies them. > > I wouldn't even know how to verify them. > > Let's remove that cruft. We can be extra conservative and keep five > years of backlog (i.e. everything from before 2008 would be removed > now). > > Ulrich >
OK, that seems to be some very good reasons to tree-clean them. What's our next step? Tree-cleaners, does this fall into your department? Or should I prepare a list of files and/or updates to clean? -- Brian Dolbec <[email protected]>
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