From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3hEy-0000Gc-W7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:29:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8F07E0A92; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:29:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f200.google.com (mail-px0-f200.google.com [209.85.216.200]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7627BE0A92 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:29:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi38 with SMTP id 38so1591167pxi.10 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:29:23 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: cardoe@cardoe.com Received: by 10.142.247.42 with SMTP id u42mr92056wfh.160.1256869762987; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:29:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4AE81426.6090106@gentoo.org> References: <4AC20C83.3050904@gentoo.org> <200910270946.12243.vapier@gentoo.org> <4AE74007.5060908@gentoo.org> <200910272231.57686.vapier@gentoo.org> <4AE81426.6090106@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:29:22 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: a6cd1a56a80064c8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unused ebuild built_with_use cleanup From: Doug Goldstein To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: a30c4cb9-937e-46b9-9d5b-6cb43f8b71bb X-Archives-Hash: 06936e8ff29124537c9767ba5268d994 On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Petteri R=C3=A4ty = wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 14:46:31 Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: >>> Normally old versions are not kept around as already said if you read >>> the thread. >> >> "normal" is not the same thing as "always". =C2=A0unless you're the main= tainer, you >> have no idea whether old versions are kept there on purpose. =C2=A0ive h= ad people >> delete older versions of packages on me simply because they made this in= valid >> assumption without talking to the maintainer. =C2=A0the rest of the thre= ad is >> irrelevant as this point was not made. >> > > Yes I have no idea. That's why I asked on gentoo-dev-announce for > maintainers to tell me if they are kept on purpose so the point was made > already at the very start. > > Regards, > Petteri > > I see several of my packages on there as well and there's absolutely no way you're culling them since they have a definite use since you're script clearly failed to take into consideration various profiles and SLOTs. Biggest reason that my packages still use built_with_use is the lack of the --missing option for EAPI=3D2. --=20 Doug Goldstein