On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 09:26:50 -0800 Robert Cole wrote: | > I'm sorry for that. It however can be a sign that the tree is not | > ready for those ebuilds, or that they are in very low demand. | | If someone has gone their entire life using a rock to hammer nails and | has never heard of a hammer before and thus doesn't have the demand | for it does that mean that if they are told about the hammer they | won't use it or have a demand for always having it? | | Sometimes you create demand where one doesn't currently exist by | simply telling people about the hammer. *bzzzzt*, silly analogy detected. Putting something in portage is not telling people about it. | If there is a way to make cvs ownership based that would be the | easiest administration wise. As in the ebuild(s) I submit I have | access to and nothing else. Uh, that's still enough to screw up portage completely. One suitably broken ebuild can still cause lots and lots of errors all over the place. I still don't see what's wrong with having a seperate repositry (eg "breakmygentoo") for things that don't make it into the "official" tree. (Well, actually, I see the whole "submitting bugs about things that are caused by breakmygentoo ebuilds" issue, but a few messy public executions by, say, Spider should sort that out... A 'tainted' flag on emerge info would be good for that...) -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm