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 1FMpHb-0004Vi-8z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:37:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2OGYOhu020305; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:34:24 GMT Received: from kerberos.ynet.sk (proxy.ynet.sk [147.175.168.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2OGU02A001078 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:30:00 GMT Received: from daria.ynet.sk (daria.ynet.sk [147.175.171.246]) by kerberos.ynet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0F3F6CC3C for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:29:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from hiker (unknown [192.168.111.3]) by daria.ynet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 625653CEC for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:29:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hiker (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EC9B13A390 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:29:58 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:29:54 +0100 From: Andrej Kacian To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support Message-ID: <20060324172954.47869b85@localhost> In-Reply-To: <44241B29.5070208@gentoo.org> References: <441F35B9.8000406@gentoo.org> <4421836A.8040000@gentoo.org> <1143123468.14434.5.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <1143127901.14434.33.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <1143137722.14434.48.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20060323184148.73e44f21@snowdrop.home> <4422EF83.6000705@gentoo.org> <20060324010328.3432ef99@snowdrop.home> <4423B8DF.3000803@gentoo.org> <20060324153752.339a8a03@snowdrop.home> <44241B29.5070208@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Foundation X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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=Sig_w0LjKvgEWraZBYKd_FvegvL; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 39c7c090-df14-4439-acd8-1c7677a4e760 X-Archives-Hash: a3d46b5edb346b8905df52f47b95a3eb --Sig_w0LjKvgEWraZBYKd_FvegvL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable D=C5=88a Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:15:37 +0100 Jakub Moc nap=C3=ADsal: > Yeah, and the point is? It happens every day, there are already tons > of third-party overlays used by Gentoo users, but once this thread > about "official" overlays started, you came here to tell us "wow, > this all will cause terrible borkage and flood developers w/ tons of > stupid invalid bugs, we need policies"? >=20 > I really don't see how overlays run mostly by Gentoo devs would cause > any more borkage than totally uncontrolled third-party overlays run by > whomever creates and publishes them, sorry. One of the reasons might be that while many users have enough sense not to report bugs too eagerly when using third-party overlays of varying quality, they would do so if they were using an official overlay - which, with your no-policy approach, would undoubtedly crawl with bugs. --=20 Andrej --Sig_w0LjKvgEWraZBYKd_FvegvL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEJB6FQlM6RnzZP+IRAnb6AJwOno6gllWl095MHdWVkDBbi3q46gCfZAn4 HH9x/EJWLZ/2RXzmdve7X02IPwMFAUQkHoXXTG4lKuDf+xECdvoAn1rm7QqPZI0T 1CgdUAGvcPlLBzgpAJ4rQXE5gxjO7HeVV9Z5dR3XSO2gfw== =pyqu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_w0LjKvgEWraZBYKd_FvegvL-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list