On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:05:30 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: > On 7/2/06, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If it is so stable and you have it on 5 machines then why are you > > wanting to install it again? > > I don't. I just don't want messages about things being installed for > which there is no atom, or whatever the message is.
Then follow the advice given and add it to an overlay > > More importantly (to me) is that when looking at a distro like this > what are the issues with leaving an older revision in portage? I > don't see what the maintainance issues are. It's been a working ebuild > for a long time. Why remove it. Just leave it there. How far back should it go? Should we leave beta versions of firefox in portage? How about kde 1? How bloody big do you want the portage tree to be? How about when some dependency is no longer compatible with myth 0.18 ? >I suppose files > could move and then the ebuild would need an update Volunteering are you? >but other than > that how much work is being saved for one person vs. a decision by > that one person to force lots of people to upgrade? (All > rhetorical....) > > - Mark > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
