José González Gómez schrieb: > > I would like to make a proposal here. What if no longer mantained > ebuilds were marked but not deleted? Let's say you have _x86 in > KEYWORDS for ebuilds/packages no longer mantained, that emerge is > aware of that and can inform us of this and that those ebuilds are > mantained in the portage tree for, let's say, a year WITH NO SECURITY > BACKPORTS on them. This would be kind of a end of life notice that > gives you some time to react. This way you still would be able to use > the ebuild at your own risk, and this wouldn't represent much extra > work load for the Gentoo devs, as the deletion process could be > automatic with the use of some scripts. What do you think? You need package manager support for a new KEYWORD. The simplest solution IMO is setting up a "server" overlay on overlays.gentoo.org. That could be used for keeping old packages around and adding new packages/features that could be interesting in a server environment.
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