From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EQ6N8-0007Zl-Hu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:56:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9DGiWKC000421; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:44:32 GMT Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9DGfIDW005111 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:41:19 GMT Received: from mail.joat.com ([71.114.140.80]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IOB00J4V5E15W30@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:49:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (cornholio.joat.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5F366D82 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:49:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.joat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.joat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16790-01 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:48:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from butthead.joat.com (butthead.joat.com [192.168.0.10]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:48:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:50:29 -0400 From: Dave Nebinger Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New category for xmingw cross compile toolchain In-reply-to: <434E8A69.6080404@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200510131250.29859.dnebinger@joat.com> Organization: Joat.com Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at joat.com References: <434E8A69.6080404@gentoo.org> User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 X-Archives-Salt: 9c3f339d-4228-440c-b74a-b0a553af111b X-Archives-Hash: bac8cc6409512f6c57ec9d8710f286c2 Just a few opinions from the outside looking in... On Thursday 13 October 2005 12:25 pm, Stefan Jones wrote: > I am just wondering about people's option about making a new category, > called something like dev-xmingw or similar. Wouldn't set a precident for dev-gcc, dev-icc, dev-[enter alternate toolchain here]? > The other option is to make an external non-official tree that people > could use as an overlay. Personally I don't like that idea either. To me, external overlays are 'tainted' because they are not blessed enough to be part of the default gentoo tree. I therefore don't trust them and don't use them. Obviously that means I don't get the latest cutting edge stuff, but to have a stable gentoo environment I'm willing to make that sacrafice. Relegating these mingw stuff to an external overlay would carry the same 'taint' with it. And the fact that external non-official overlays are not really given much representation in the doco, most users looking for something like this would not have any idea that the external overlay existed and they could get the packages they're looking for from there. Like I said, just comments from an outsider... -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list