Re: [gentoo-dev] Sandboxes

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@thinrope.net>]

Thomas Cort wrote:
>> Thoughts on ideas on this somewhat more focussed idea? ( or at least I
>> think it's more focused :P )
> 
> Will there be restrictions on what can go into these overlays? There
> are some ebuilds that aren't allowed in the main portage tree. One
> example is winex-cvs (see
> app-emulation/winex-cvs/winex-cvs-3000.ebuild for details).

Interesting comments, and I cannot blame them too much.

> Another
> example... an overlay dev could take an existing ebuild that has
> RESTRICT="fetch" and modify it to fetch the package directly without
> user interaction.

Yes, this one is a good example.

So, in order not to be utterly responsible for distributing such things
as *semi-offcial* gentoo work, I'd suggest just providing a bit easier
way to use external overlays than the current one (which is easy enough
once you set it up, but generally hard for n00bs).

I have my own overlay for quite some time and it had helped a few people,
not counting me (/me != dev) [1]

[1]	http://rsync.tar.bz/

I know this is always a topic on whether to have a knife is good or bad,
and whether just possessing a gun makes you a bad guy...
Same is here - if there is a possibility some people will eventually
abuse it. But is this enough to disallow it whatsoever.

Kalin.


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