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.

cheers
 Paul
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