Proposal: support only one version of libraries

[Nicolás Alvarez]

2014-07-07 21:23 GMT-03:00 Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com>:
> Currently many library packages in emerge contain rules in the .py
> script to download multiple library versions, and there are
> corresponding patches for all those versions. Sometimes those patches
> are even identical.
>
> For example, assuan2 has download URLs, digests, and cmake patches for
> 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, and 2.1.1. The 2.0.x versions date to 2011. Any
> reason to keep them? I'd just delete everything except 2.1.1, which is
> the default target.
>
> I hereby propose keeping only the latest version and deleting any old patches.

Bump?

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Nicolás