From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IRzgH-0003PI-El for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:20:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l830DZcv001221; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 00:13:35 GMT Received: from agaffney.org (68-188-61-127.dhcp.stls.mo.charter.com [68.188.61.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l830Bed8031443 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 00:11:40 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.10] (kagome [192.168.0.10]) by agaffney.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB0C1E0015 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 19:11:40 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <46DB513C.7020704@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:11:40 -0500 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070806) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last Rites - August 27th - September 2nd 2007 References: <46DAEA2B.50109@gentoo.org> <20070902200146.61d3a881@localhost> <20070902235628.GC7679@elladan.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7f11395b-2f65-40a7-84f3-8653a22f745a X-Archives-Hash: fb7abf869d66cc22cb19e8d6e1308348 Ryan Hill wrote: > Lars Weiler wrote: >> * Ryan Hill [07/09/02 17:44 -0600]: >>> plan on doing version-specific masks in the future unless someone can >>> come up with a good argument for it. >> Slots? > > That's a good argument. I'm not so sure. The last rites have historically always been for complete removals of a package from the tree. Is there any reason to change it? Just removing an older version of a package from the tree is something that happens all the time. Do we want to clutter up the GWN (as much as it needs content sometimes) with this unimportant information? -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list