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 15:57, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> 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..
>>
>>
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> 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)
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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)

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Regards,
Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang