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firelizzard
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 Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 8:50 pm Post subject: Why are no past stable KDE versions retained? |
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As far as I can tell from git history, once a new version of Plasma or KDE Framework is marked stable, the previously stable version is dropped from portage within a week. Why?
Since I ran , my system is now running a version of KDE that no longer exists in portage. I wanted to enable a USE flag I had previously disabled, but I don't want to upgrade KDE right now. Unless I find a way to rollback my portage database to a previous version (more than 10 days old, so there's no snapshot available), my only choice is to upgrade everything. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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firelizzard,
All the ebuilds that were ever in ::gentoo are in git.
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asturm
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| Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:07 pm Post subject: Re: Why are no past stable KDE versions retained? |
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| firelizzard wrote: | | As far as I can tell from git history, once a new version of Plasma or KDE Framework is marked stable, the previously stable version is dropped from portage within a week. Why? |
They are broken by subsequent dependency bumps. Keeping old versions in tree is not "gratis". |
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