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 1FMTBI-0000yB-5g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:01:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2NGxo4a002630; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:59:50 GMT Received: from ehmsen.org (er.stoned.paa.svampen.dk [85.218.161.209] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2NGuUJu019678 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:56:30 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] by ehmsen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FMT6p-0000I9-7m for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:56:27 +0100 Message-ID: <4422D33A.4070303@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:56:26 +0100 From: Martin Ehmsen User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060319) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support References: <441F35B9.8000406@gentoo.org> <4421836A.8040000@gentoo.org> <1143123468.14434.5.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <1143127901.14434.33.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <623652d50603230840t13ba6520g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <623652d50603230840t13ba6520g@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) X-Archives-Salt: 55a4e57d-9132-4ef9-8669-7a77f825170f X-Archives-Hash: b433d3870e0eded564e8e7d3a0155bcf Chris Bainbridge wrote: > Another thing that some people may not have considered - with many > developers using various permutations of overlays, how can you > guarantee that what is being checked into the main tree will build for > a normal user? In order to test that, a developer would have to > disable all overlays, unemerge everything provided by the overlays, > and then build and test with a plain "non-overlay" gentoo. That's a > lot of work; I doubt most developers are doing it. You are wrong in my case. I have a vanilla root, which used to be just a chroot, but now i'm trying out vmware, where I test all the changes I make. I think many other devs test in a similar manner (on another box, chroot, ...). /Ehmsen -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list