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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GDJdp-0001uu-2a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:32:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7GBV1EX014924; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:31:01 GMT Received: from forum.psychotherapie.org (s15216962.onlinehome-server.info [217.160.22.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7GBSFWe004368 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:28:15 GMT Received: (from uucp@localhost) by forum.psychotherapie.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/SuSE Linux 0.7) with UUCP id k7GBSGEc027653 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:28:16 +0200 Received: (from weigelt@localhost) by metux.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) id k7GBRREs011093 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:27:27 +0200 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:27:27 +0200 From: Enrico Weigelt To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Portage Subtrees [WAS: Sunrise contemplations] Message-ID: <20060816112727.GB13586@nibiru.local> References: <1154366720.17142.126.camel@rivendell> <20060801082153.GC29200@eric.schwarzvogel.de> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060801082153.GC29200@eric.schwarzvogel.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Archives-Salt: 0032f7ce-0713-43f8-a18b-7964b88ab7b5 X-Archives-Hash: 911d53b3a11c91ad6fcf41779d2a3d69 * Tobias Klausmann schrieb: hi, (I'm trying to splitt off sevaral sub-topics to get them more clear ...) > I initially provided an ebuild for a package I maintain. I also > provide a new ebuild for every new version. For this, proxy > maintainership is the thing to do, IMO. hmm, I'm just thinking about splitting the tree into separate (larger) parts, actually: move out certain subtrees to an overlay. For example: KDE. Many people/systems won't ever use it (ie. have no X at all). Others are very interested in it. If we had this whole subtree in an overlay, it would make the main tree much, much smaller, so easier to maintain and save load from the mirrors. But this only works good, if its actually an *subtree*, and *not* overriding any packages from the main tree. Otherwise we soon get ugly conflicts and evrything goes to hell. The same could happen for other parts of the tree, ie. web servers. Maybe this splitting could be done on similar boundaries as some distros (or commercial OS vendors) have their different "editions". So maybe "Gentoo KDesktop edition" would be Gentoo base plus Xorg+KDE overlays ;-) Of course this has to be done *very* careful, but IMHO it can help a lot. ... just my 0.02 EUR cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list