Re: Graveyard overlay (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/x2, games-strategy/x2-demo)

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

On 14 February 2013 16:37, Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net> wrote:
> Am 14.02.2013 17:30, schrieb Markos Chandras:
>> On 14 February 2013 15:57, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> 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 <george@gentoo.org>
>>>>>> 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. :-)
>

Oops indeed :-/

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Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
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