On Friday 24 March 2006 20:18, Chris Gianelloni wrote:

> I really can't think of much besides kernel + toolchain that can have
> such devastating effects to the rest of the tree.  The only other
> massive breakages would be via eclasses, which was my main target.

glibc is a good candidate. And portage a second one.

> Does anyone have any ideas how we could resonably reduce problems
> reported from things such as toolchain breakages in an overlay, yet
> still not punish the people running the overlay by disallowing it?  I
> surely wouldn't want to limit the toolchain maintainers from being able
> to enjoy the use of an overlay if they wished it.

Perhaps we could ask people who run overlays with dangerous ebuilds, to have 
these ebuilds protected by some environment variables. (The var must be set 
for the ebuild to work.)

Paul

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