Re: [gentoo-dev] package graveyard

2011-08-17 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 17/08/2011 21:57, Matthew Summers a écrit : > +1 on this. It saves the ebuild for posterity AND prevents users > hitting nasty bits. This seems to me to beg for a proper well-defined > policy, in any case. > We already have a policy for this and it's called portage. If a package is broken (an

Re: [gentoo-dev] package graveyard

2011-08-17 Thread Matthew Summers
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Alex Alexander wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 19:45, Thomas Kahle wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm forking from a thread on gentoo-project: >> >> On 17:26 Wed 17 Aug 2011, Markos Chandras wrote: >>> Personally, I want to shrink portage. There is no way for 250 listed >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] package graveyard

2011-08-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 17.08.2011 18:45, schrieb Thomas Kahle: > Hi, > > I'm forking from a thread on gentoo-project: > > On 17:26 Wed 17 Aug 2011, Markos Chandras wrote: >> Personally, I want to shrink portage. There is no way for 250 listed >> developers ( I would be glad if 100 of us were really active ) to >> ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] package graveyard

2011-08-17 Thread Mario Fetka
most users just hunt the program name and gentoo to a searchengine they get the info that the ebuild is in cvs but in graveyard. but hey i am just a user. Mario 2011/8/17 Markos Chandras : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 17/08/2011 06:04 ??, Mario Fetka wrote: >> how a

Re: [gentoo-dev] package graveyard

2011-08-17 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 17/08/2011 05:56 ??, Alex Alexander wrote: > We could try removing all keywords and masking ebuilds that are > abandoned with bugs but upstream is still active, instead of > removing them completely. That way the ebuild will be there when/if > so

Re: [gentoo-dev] package graveyard

2011-08-17 Thread Cyprien Nicolas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Kahle wrote: > Is there a way for X to easily query the portage history and dig up > the ebuild that was there at some point. She could then use the old > ebuild for their new version, but without efficient search she would > probably start fro

Re: [gentoo-dev] package graveyard

2011-08-17 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 17/08/2011 06:04 ??, Mario Fetka wrote: > how about adding a new tag metadata,xml so that it is not imported > into the rsync tree > What is the difference between your proposal and removing the package? In both cases, the broken ebuild does not

Re: [gentoo-dev] package graveyard

2011-08-17 Thread Mario Fetka
how about adding a new tag metadata,xml so that it is not imported into the rsync tree Mario 2011/8/17 Alex Alexander : > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 19:45, Thomas Kahle wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm forking from a thread on gentoo-project: >> >> On 17:26 Wed 17 Aug 2011, Markos Chandras wrote: >>> Person

Re: [gentoo-dev] package graveyard

2011-08-17 Thread Alex Alexander
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 19:45, Thomas Kahle wrote: > Hi, > > I'm forking from a thread on gentoo-project: > > On 17:26 Wed 17 Aug 2011, Markos Chandras wrote: >> Personally, I want to shrink portage. There is no way for 250 listed >> developers ( I would be glad if 100 of us were really active ) t

[gentoo-dev] package graveyard

2011-08-17 Thread Thomas Kahle
Hi, I'm forking from a thread on gentoo-project: On 17:26 Wed 17 Aug 2011, Markos Chandras wrote: > Personally, I want to shrink portage. There is no way for 250 listed > developers ( I would be glad if 100 of us were really active ) to > maintain thousands of ebuilds. [...] > We need to suppor