On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Paul Hartman > <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> >> >> Maybe a "sunset" overlay with old obsolete ebuilds to complement the >> "sunrise" overlay of things-yet-to-hit portage? > > I like the idea but does it solve the root-cause issue - whatever that > might really be - for portage maintainers removing ebuilds and code in > the first place? If it was in the sunset overlay then we'd say they > don't have to support it anymore, which is fine with me, but I'd still > be able to get it which would work. There needs to be a resting place > for the code also, not just the ebuilds. If that's on my system, > somewhere, then that's fine. I just need to know where to go to get it > if my drive crashes and backups fail. > > If I added this overlay does that significantly increase what I see > when I do eix ati-drivers? If so then maybe there should be a filter > to only show what I want to see in the sunset overlay and not > everything that's there? > > I do like the idea though.
I'm sure the ebuilds would break, dependencies would be a nightmare, etc... all of the things that come from them not being maintained anymore. But at least they'd be there easier than getting it from CVS and making your own overlay. (mask them all and let the users sort 'em out)
