Those "backup" versions would be linked to old dependencies that don't exist anymore."backup" versions of the most important packages are not present.
and holding up the whole ports tree being published as packages, just because some huge mess of a software project fails to build?Maybe just remove the old versions (including the dependencies) IF (and only if) building the new versions succeed?
yes I've seen ;-).. good ideas !Posted quite rough (and impossible to do myself) idea on another thread.
I remember, lost the thread itself, though.This has been discussed in the past, in the same way that we have to build ourselves kernel packages like drm-*-kmod during the transition period between two minor release, we can't have multiple version of the binary packages.
There is not enough resources to keep a proper backup of old binary package.
ffmpeg disappeared a few years ago in latest,On a first look this current package fallout is rather huge. multimedia/ffmpeg isn't available anymore and that alone drags many desktop related package down.
Whenever such events happen, the explanations for why packages have to be removed from the repository when dependencies fail to build are sound and understandable. But then you realize that such events don't happen at that scale on other systems, and you start to question yourself: sure, but is this REALLY the best approach to handle such situations?
multimedia/obs-studio seems to have an optionits just something thats always annoyed me since i dont use vlc
vlc isnt installed with obs on any linux distro i have used
VLC
, on by default. At the same time, option PULSEAUDIO
, on by default, too.