From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FxWDe-0000TK-BO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:44:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k63LgQAD019262; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 21:42:26 GMT Received: from www.rout.co.nz (203-79-82-53.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz [203.79.82.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k63LYK7W017811 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 21:34:21 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (nick.rout.co.nz [192.168.1.2]) by www.rout.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADBDD42C2 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:31:10 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:34:19 +1200 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Stable MythTV removed from portage? In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0607030605y1ac19a98v6b3a6f29c2e4436b@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060703153424.0ACC.NICK@rout.co.nz> <5bdc1c8b0607030605y1ac19a98v6b3a6f29c2e4436b@mail.gmail.com> Message-Id: <20060704093011.F86B.NICK@rout.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.24.02 [en] X-Archives-Salt: d03ada73-5c2f-4d97-ad8d-922d6b913b3b X-Archives-Hash: bd621995d06508a10ceb78d2658ce0a6 On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:05:30 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: > On 7/2/06, Nick Rout wrote: > > > > > If it is so stable and you have it on 5 machines then why are you > > wanting to install it again? > > I don't. I just don't want messages about things being installed for > which there is no atom, or whatever the message is. Then follow the advice given and add it to an overlay > > More importantly (to me) is that when looking at a distro like this > what are the issues with leaving an older revision in portage? I > don't see what the maintainance issues are. It's been a working ebuild > for a long time. Why remove it. Just leave it there. How far back should it go? Should we leave beta versions of firefox in portage? How about kde 1? How bloody big do you want the portage tree to be? How about when some dependency is no longer compatible with myth 0.18 ? >I suppose files > could move and then the ebuild would need an update Volunteering are you? >but other than > that how much work is being saved for one person vs. a decision by > that one person to force lots of people to upgrade? (All > rhetorical....) > > - Mark > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list