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 4.54) id 1FMWq9-00078H-Tl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:55:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2NKsFnK004943; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:54:15 GMT Received: from smtp50.wxs.nl (smtp50-real.wxs.nl [195.121.247.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2NKopV2013816 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:50:51 GMT Received: from pavlvs2.devrieze.net (ip5457f303.direct-adsl.nl [84.87.243.3]) by smtp50.wxs.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k2NKopcw023631 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:50:51 +0100 Received: from hex.local.devrieze.net (hex.local.devrieze.net [192.168.1.7]) by pavlvs2.devrieze.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A81D10050 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:50:51 +0100 (CET) From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:50:41 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <441F35B9.8000406@gentoo.org> <1143127901.14434.33.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1143127901.14434.33.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> X-Face: #Lb+'V@sGJ;ptgo5}V"W+5OCoo{LZv;bh,s,`WKLi/J)ed1_$0;6X<=?utf-8?q?700LVV/=3BLqPhiDP=5E=0A=09=27f=5Dfnv?=@%6M8\'HR1t=aFx;ePfp{ZQoBe+e)JOQ8T5*(_;mHY+cltLGq<;@$Y,=?utf-8?q?O=5C=24=0A=09Tm=23G6M?=,g![Q62J{na*S9d;R[^8pc%u\aiLqU@`kJtYl"^6pxdW 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart9612943.Y0HtfbRsJK"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200603232150.49788.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: f40ba2d0-9e2b-442b-b50c-07a770593780 X-Archives-Hash: 29cb108f868db17dd8cd85520a30eb91 --nextPart9612943.Y0HtfbRsJK Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 23 March 2006 16:31, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > No. =A0It isn't. =A0Look in many developer overlays and you'll see packag= es > that they have made that work how *they* want them to, even if it is > *very* different from what is in the tree. =A0This is the case for > packages that are not maintained by them, too. =A0Any ebuild that is done > by someone that isn't the maintainer is a fork. =A0There's nothing > "hostile" about it. > Probably this is the reason that my personal overlay is not "public". For=20 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. =A0The main reason that it is successful is because > the same people that maintain php maintain the overlay. =A0Yes, there are > other contributors, but the maintainers of the overlay are still the > developers. =A0I see no problem with providing these sorts of overlays to > bridge the gap between contributing users and developers. =A0I *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= =20 use, but who are from other developers. As I'm not the maintainer I don't=20 always bother to post bugs, and find it wrong to fix it without telling the= =20 maintainer. Other ebuilds concern packages that are unmaintained or not=20 stable enough. It also contains my own kde meta packages that select only=20 that part of kde that I want. I can only assume that other developers have similar overlays too. These=20 overlays form actually a wealth of resources that are hidden away. If there= =20 were a semi-public overlay system in which developers could keep their=20 overlays, this might help in getting this out to the public. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --nextPart9612943.Y0HtfbRsJK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEIwopbKx5DBjWFdsRAl6uAJ9Rvf65Dpb1QBnCShvNpUOb0rFeYwCgv6fv 5yB8n5iS6QdFjCuXFgnTpxI= =ATN4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart9612943.Y0HtfbRsJK-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list