From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:50:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603232150.49788.pauldv@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1143127901.14434.33.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net>
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On Thursday 23 March 2006 16:31, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> No. It isn't. Look in many developer overlays and you'll see packages
> that they have made that work how *they* want them to, even if it is
> *very* different from what is in the tree. This is the case for
> packages that are not maintained by them, too. Any ebuild that is done
> by someone that isn't the maintainer is a fork. There's nothing
> "hostile" about it.
>
Probably this is the reason that my personal overlay is not "public". For
example it contains a gtk+ version with the save dialog "fixed".
> I see no problem with overlays in concept, such as the php overlay that
> is very successful. The main reason that it is successful is because
> the same people that maintain php maintain the overlay. Yes, there are
> other contributors, but the maintainers of the overlay are still the
> developers. I see no problem with providing these sorts of overlays to
> bridge the gap between contributing users and developers. I *do* see a
> problem with simply allowing random overlays from any developer for
> anything.
On the other hand, my personal overlay contains various fixes to packages I
use, but who are from other developers. As I'm not the maintainer I don't
always bother to post bugs, and find it wrong to fix it without telling the
maintainer. Other ebuilds concern packages that are unmaintained or not
stable enough. It also contains my own kde meta packages that select only
that part of kde that I want.
I can only assume that other developers have similar overlays too. These
overlays form actually a wealth of resources that are hidden away. If there
were a semi-public overlay system in which developers could keep their
overlays, this might help in getting this out to the public.
Paul
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Paul de Vrieze
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2006-03-20 23:07 [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open Daniel Drake
2006-03-20 23:11 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-03-20 23:44 ` George Prowse
2006-03-20 23:45 ` Bret Towe
2006-03-20 23:58 ` Stefan Schweizer
2006-03-21 0:12 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-03-21 0:05 ` m h
2006-03-21 3:32 ` Alec Warner
2006-03-21 3:40 ` Jason Stubbs
2006-03-21 1:06 ` Mike Auty
2006-03-21 12:09 ` Simon Stelling
2006-03-21 22:32 ` Daniel Goller
2006-03-22 10:49 ` Jonathan Coome
2006-03-22 12:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-03-22 13:56 ` Michael Crute
2006-03-22 14:13 ` Thomas Cort
2006-03-22 13:58 ` Thomas Cort
2006-03-22 14:15 ` Dan Meltzer
2006-03-22 14:55 ` Jonathan Coome
2006-03-23 22:20 ` Daniel Goller
2006-03-23 23:34 ` Dan Meltzer
2006-03-24 5:01 ` Daniel Goller
2006-03-21 1:15 ` [gentoo-dev] " George Shapovalov
2006-03-21 1:27 ` George Shapovalov
2006-03-21 0:52 ` m h
2006-03-24 23:08 ` Daniel Drake
2006-03-21 6:05 ` Alin Nastac
2006-03-21 16:27 ` Paul de Vrieze
2006-03-21 12:15 ` Thomas Cort
2006-03-21 17:14 ` Brandon Edens
2006-03-21 19:38 ` Daniel Drake
2006-03-21 22:20 ` Daniel Goller
2006-03-22 14:19 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-22 17:03 ` [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support Donnie Berkholz
2006-03-22 17:24 ` Daniel Ostrow
2006-03-22 17:33 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-03-23 22:25 ` Aron Griffis
2006-03-22 17:39 ` Duncan Coutts
2006-03-22 18:42 ` Stefan Schweizer
2006-03-22 22:49 ` Duncan Coutts
2006-03-22 22:03 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-23 8:10 ` Danny van Dyk
2006-03-23 9:07 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-23 10:09 ` Chris Bainbridge
2006-03-23 10:56 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-23 12:47 ` Chris Bainbridge
2006-03-23 13:13 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-23 17:16 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-03-23 18:20 ` Rumen Yotov
2006-03-23 18:43 ` Chris Bainbridge
2006-03-23 19:30 ` Rumen Yotov
2006-03-23 21:47 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-03-23 14:41 ` [gentoo-dev] " Chris Gianelloni
2006-03-23 17:47 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-03-23 23:34 ` Aron Griffis
2006-03-23 9:28 ` Luis Medinas
2006-03-23 10:11 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-23 9:36 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-03-23 9:58 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-23 10:22 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-03-23 11:02 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-23 11:07 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-03-23 11:18 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-23 14:17 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-03-23 14:41 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-23 14:54 ` Eric Edgar
2006-03-23 20:31 ` Paul de Vrieze
2006-03-23 15:31 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-03-23 15:51 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-23 18:15 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-03-23 18:31 ` Stefan Schweizer
2006-03-23 18:41 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-03-23 18:57 ` Jakub Moc
2006-03-23 19:10 ` Daniel Ostrow
2006-03-23 19:27 ` Stefan Schweizer
2006-03-23 19:42 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-24 1:03 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-03-24 8:59 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-24 13:46 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-03-24 14:53 ` Alec Warner
2006-03-24 16:19 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-24 16:33 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-24 14:40 ` Aron Griffis
2006-03-24 9:16 ` Jakub Moc
2006-03-24 13:49 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-03-24 15:37 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-03-24 16:14 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-24 16:15 ` Jakub Moc
2006-03-24 16:29 ` Andrej Kacian
2006-03-23 18:55 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-03-23 19:21 ` Duncan Coutts
2006-03-23 20:07 ` Jakub Moc
2006-03-23 20:19 ` Andres Loeh
2006-03-24 8:52 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-24 11:46 ` Andres Loeh
2006-03-24 13:55 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-03-24 14:12 ` Paul de Vrieze
2006-03-24 14:47 ` Aron Griffis
2006-03-24 19:18 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-03-25 2:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-03-25 19:37 ` [gentoo-dev] " Paul de Vrieze
2006-03-25 19:46 ` Robin H. Johnson
2006-03-24 14:56 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-24 15:38 ` Andres Loeh
2006-03-24 15:58 ` Jakub Moc
2006-03-24 14:49 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-24 15:41 ` Andres Loeh
2006-03-25 19:41 ` Paul de Vrieze
2006-03-25 21:23 ` Michael Cummings
2006-03-23 16:06 ` Jeroen Roovers
2006-03-23 16:40 ` Chris Bainbridge
2006-03-23 16:56 ` Martin Ehmsen
2006-03-23 18:25 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-03-23 18:55 ` Chris Bainbridge
2006-03-23 19:37 ` Duncan Coutts
2006-03-23 21:42 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-03-23 21:49 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-03-23 22:01 ` Paul de Vrieze
2006-03-23 21:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Paul de Vrieze
2006-03-23 20:50 ` Paul de Vrieze [this message]
2006-03-23 21:32 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-03-24 8:44 ` Paul de Vrieze
2006-03-23 15:27 ` Jakub Moc
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