On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:30:04 +0400
Sergey Popov <pinkb...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> 01.02.2013 12:53, Michael Weber wrote:
> > BENEFIT
> > 
> >    User can choose whether or not layman -a frozen.
> > 
> >    Non-trivial ebuilds are preserved.
> > 
> >    Tarballs are preserved.
> > 
> >    Nobody gets hurt.
> 
> Well, we can move such software to sunrise, can't we? But proposition of
> splitted mirrors makes sense, cause quite often dead upstream means dead
> links to original tarballs too.

No, Sunrise project has rather specific goals [1] and is certainly
not supposed to be a junkyard for packages removed from Gentoo. I'd
even say that packages are put in Sunrise with some hope that they will
be moved to gx86 at some point, not the other way.

[1]:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/sunrise/

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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