>>>>> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > gentoo-x86/profiles/updates $ LANG=C ls -1 --sort=time > [long list omitted]
> old entries are done in different context (comparing to 2012): > - some packages change names 2 or 3 times > - slots have different meaning > moreover: > - if you set your PORTDIR to different directory you'll get all > that full update. And will break the system. Old profile entries > used to break eclass-manpages and latex-base (due to double > renaming) It's worse: Bad entries in the old files may go unnoticed for a long time. But if such a file is updated for whatever reason, it will be reprocessed on users' systems, including any bad entries contained in it. > Thus the reason for removal is simple: old entries are potentially > buggy as nobody verifies them. I wouldn't even know how to verify them. Let's remove that cruft. We can be extra conservative and keep five years of backlog (i.e. everything from before 2008 would be removed now). Ulrich
