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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hbmam-0006Dt-Rx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:51:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3BNoI0o025513; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:50:18 GMT Received: from tokyo.cs.uri.edu (tokyo.cs.uri.edu [131.128.81.252]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3BNmPlD023156 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:48:25 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tokyo.cs.uri.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 130D7DAE0E for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:48:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cs.uri.edu Received: from tokyo.cs.uri.edu ([131.128.81.252]) by localhost (mail.cs.uri.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id jTP8pDzYz6u7 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:48:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from brandon?cs.uri.edu (cab7-67.fctvplus.net [64.77.196.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tokyo.cs.uri.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F92DADDA for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:48:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by brandon@cs.uri.edu (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:48:21 -0400 From: "Brandon Edens" Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:48:21 -0400 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New metastructure proposal Message-ID: <20070411234821.GA31308@bruno.petnet.net> References: <20070410193249.GD7991@ubik> <20070411005935.f3adf691.genone@gentoo.org> 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; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AqsLC8rIMeq19msA" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070411005935.f3adf691.genone@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archives-Salt: f4963dae-5fc4-4211-a23a-1ecbb07df3db X-Archives-Hash: 989f28e2262d3d1d30a477e6f0628754 --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:59:35AM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:32:49 +0200 > Alexandre Buisse wrote: >=20 > [snip] > > Please criticize this with everything constructive you > can think of. >=20 > This idea of putting almost everything into its own repo/overlay will IMO= end up in the same mess that several other distros have with tons of 3rd p= arty repos that don't play nice with each other. In case you don't know, th= e "one stop" philosophy with one central repo is what attracts a lot of peo= ple to Gentoo. I think a lot of the problems with those other distributions and their 3rd = party repositories is related to the fact that they are binary-based distribution= s and we are not. Having an ebuild that DEPENDS on such and such >=3D than a certain version and having ebuilds nam= ed after the projects they represent. well... Brandon --=20 Brandon Edens brandon@cs.uri.edu http://www.brandonedens.org key 0x55438F48 --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGHXPF4fsYS1VDj0gRAjmEAKCOy5WxGM2DHv/UvaWufaBsE/6wSQCgpcAZ sQ0M0P3/AscBeTM3dzWlAF4= =Sruc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list