From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD851387CF for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 17:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96B2F21C013; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 17:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailrelay.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (wrz3035.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.3.35]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2751F21C00E for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 17:40:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from virusscan-slb.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay-slb.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C1047713D for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 18:40:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by virusscan-slb.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A72377112 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 18:40:32 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-wuerzburg.de Received: from mailmaster.uni-wuerzburg.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vmail002.slb.uni-wuerzburg.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10225) with ESMTP id vbQtL7MncJ0w for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 18:40:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from wma7001.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (wma7001.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.207.1]) by mailmaster.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8577A7710A for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 18:40:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 18:40:32 +0100 (CET) From: Vaeth To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removals reply In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 0ddb6f7e-842b-47e4-be29-7ec8ba31657a X-Archives-Hash: 8d01aaf340dad206c83b22e06df5f0f1 > [...] and if anyone wants to start where we left he > can pick out the ebuild from attic and put into his own overlay where > it might work for him or even put it back to tree fixed. And this is exactly what *cannot* be done after a while: The ebuild is still available by CVS (or maybe git in future), but if there were already a lot of gentoo patches, the tarball with these patches is lost forever. If even upstream is dead, not even the main tarball will be available anymore. > Go for it, i wrote exactly what to do, create vcs/tracker/homepage and > it can stay. And what if somebody decides to do so in a year? E.g. if somebody gets some hardware in a year and needs support of a package which was removed? Or if he was not yet a gentoo user at the time when the package was removed (or absent/busy for a long period)? Then he is lost unless a distribution with bigger resources as gentoo has decided to keep the package. Not really a selling point for gentoo.