Am 14.02.2013 17:30, schrieb Markos Chandras: > On 14 February 2013 15:57, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 14/02/13 10:33 AM, George Shapovalov wrote: >>>> On Thursday 14 February 2013 21:03:55 Ben de Groot wrote: >>>>> On 14 February 2013 20:25, George Shapovalov >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Um, what about the sunset overlay? IIRC, it was used/intended >>>>>> primarily for this purpose. Is it still alive? (haven't heard >>>>>> it mentioned in a while and layman seems to list onyl sunrise) >>>>> >>>>> You probably mean kde-sunset, which is specifically for >>>>> Qt3/KDE3. But I guess we could consider merging kde-sunset with >>>>> graveyard. >>>> Nope, plain sunset. At the time when the sunrise overlay was making >>>> a lot of noise (some 5 years ago?) there was a talk about sunset >>>> one. I don't remember details any more and it is absent from >>>> layman, so it could have been just talk without anything following >>>> it.. >>>> >>>> > > I remember it too (and I think i mentioned it a couple of weeks ago). > I believe the sunset overlay was deprecated in favour of the attic > being made more easily available (also probably because no dev's had > time to maintain/administer it) > > >> > > Last time I checked, the sunrise overlay was very much alive. It's > purpose is not to store old ebuilds (per se). It keeps high-quality > (because they are reviewed by devs and users before they appear in the > main branch) ebuilds that are not in portage tree. I think that the > sunrise devs would reject ebuilds that got removed from tree for > obvious reasons (dead upstream, broken etc etc) > Read again. It's sunset, not sunrise. :-)