On 09:34 Tue 04 Jul , Nick Rout wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:05:30 -0700 > Mark Knecht wrote: > > 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 ? >
More importantly, there was a security issue with the version that was removed. -- Join The no2id Coalition, http://www.no2id.net/ djm -- [email protected] mailing list
