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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:36:00 +0300
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads-up: KDEers: Particularly kde3-ers,
From: "Arttu V." <arttuv69@gmail.com>
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On 8/27/09, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> Moral of the story - don't trust portage to support your machine
> tomorrow just because it works today, and don't expect portage
> maintainers to care. The response you'll get, if you get one at all,
> is 'be a man, create your own overlay, be responsible for your
> machine, and shut up'.
Given the possibly large-ish number of folks trying to run Gentoo on
older hardware with similar problems, and given that there already are
overlays for "bleeding edge" (qting-edge, kde-crazy, everything with
live-scm ebuilds etc), maybe some of the old hw owners should organize
a bit and try to pool their time into, e.g., a "grandpas-trusty"
overlay with much of the old ebuilds easily available or something.
I think it has already been suggested and considered that everything
that gets removed from portage would instead get moved into some
"old-stuff-dump" overlay, but I just don't have the time to look up
any references and discussion over it right now ...
Naturally it is not a perfect solution as bit-rot will inevitably get
you when things like APIs and ABIs change enough, but just not having
to hunt down everything from Attics (not to mention patch-packages and
the original sources) into local overlays would probably be a
considerable time-saver.
But once again, it comes down to the question "ok, maybe it could
work, who'll do it?" The regular devs seem to be pretty occupied given
their current workload, so they might not have the extra oomph saved
for this.
--
Arttu V.