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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sandboxes
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:52:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603240952.30952.pauldv@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3b09e8e90603231654h2e3ec018q22ee4c3ee265324f@mail.gmail.com>

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On Friday 24 March 2006 01:54, Thomas Cort wrote:
> > Thoughts on ideas on this somewhat more focussed idea? ( or at least
> > I think it's more focused :P )
>
> Will there be restrictions on what can go into these overlays? There
> are some ebuilds that aren't allowed in the main portage tree. One
> example is winex-cvs (see
> app-emulation/winex-cvs/winex-cvs-3000.ebuild for details). Another
> example... an overlay dev could take an existing ebuild that has
> RESTRICT="fetch" and modify it to fetch the package directly without
> user interaction.

Things that are not suited for public consumption should not be made 
public in the first place. This is one reason that I don't think that 
users should be given the opportunity to create their own gentoo-hosed 
overlays. I believe that developers could be trusted though to do things 
properly.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
Gentoo Developer
Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-24  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-23 23:45 [gentoo-dev] Sandboxes Alec Warner
2006-03-24  0:21 ` Stefan Schweizer
2006-03-24  1:15   ` Alec Warner
2006-03-24  0:23 ` Mike Frysinger
2006-03-24  8:51   ` Paul de Vrieze
2006-03-24 15:23   ` Stuart Herbert
2006-03-24 16:32     ` Andrej Kacian
2006-03-24 18:23       ` Mike Frysinger
2006-03-25  2:30         ` [gentoo-dev] Sandboxes Duncan
2006-03-27 20:17           ` Mike Frysinger
2006-03-28 20:31             ` Lars Strojny
2006-03-29  0:32               ` Mike Frysinger
2006-03-24  0:54 ` [gentoo-dev] Sandboxes Thomas Cort
2006-03-24  8:52   ` Paul de Vrieze [this message]
2006-03-24  9:42     ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2006-03-24  9:47   ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2006-03-24 15:34   ` Mike Frysinger
2006-03-24 13:37 ` Chris Gianelloni

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