On Tuesday 16 May 2006 21:35, Luis Francisco Araujo wrote:
> Sorry if i am confusing things here, but isn't this just _yet_ another
> profile that
> the user can choose to use?
A profile in the tree has to be supported by someone.
It's also more likely that people would try it out without knowing what they 
are going to open.

An overlay makes users more conscious that they are going to require manual 
work and they have to know where to look for support. If it's in portage, 
it's more likely that users won't look at it deeply and just think that "it's 
portage, so goes to gentoo bugzilla".

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