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 1Foluq-0002cs-Ry for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:41:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k59IbGn7030562; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 18:37:16 GMT Received: from rs25s3.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (rs25s3.datacenter.cha.cantv.net [200.44.33.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k59ITakK016374 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 18:29:37 GMT Received: from localhost (dC9D13795.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net [201.209.55.149]) by rs25s3.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (8.13.4/8.13.0/3.0) with ESMTP id k59ITaP6017078 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:29:36 -0400 X-Matched-Lists: [] Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Foll0-0002b5-Hs for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:30:54 -0400 Message-ID: <4489BE5E.6050208@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:30:54 -0400 From: Luis Francisco Araujo User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060530) 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] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay References: <1149772819.19443.10.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20060608093213.e0ccb189.tcort@gentoo.org> <20060608144145.GA7696@cerberus.oppresses.us> <44883E56.7050506@gentoo.org> <1149781533.18059.30.camel@rivendell> <623652d50606080948i4a16f875tdfd4931d9a4bc1c1@mail.gmail.com> <4488CDF4.1060009@gentoo.org> <623652d50606090312i64dbe70atb8ae0ad215a069ea@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <623652d50606090312i64dbe70atb8ae0ad215a069ea@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.2, clamav-milter version 0.88.2 on rs25s3.datacenter.cha.cantv.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: b7160bf4-30f4-4f0f-9fdf-3bbdf7467a46 X-Archives-Hash: 902ff9940dd37a3e987a3b397d5bdaeb Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On 09/06/06, Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: >> Yes, i agree, writting and maintaining ebuilds is a hard and >> *time-consuming* task. >> So if an user can't even take the time to fix a digest, why we should >> support him >> officially?. > > The point is that there are lots of users who are interested in niche > packages that no developers use or are interested in. These users have > the skills to write an ebuild, and other users of the package have the > skills to fix and maintain that ebuild over time. These guys don't > mind downloading ebuilds from bugzilla and fixing digests. But there > are a larger class of users of niche packages that don't have the > ebuild skills, and don't want the hassle of bugzilla and digest > fixing. This larger group of users are the ones that would benefit > from an overlay. Fine. I highly agree on that, now my question is, why this needs to be officially supported? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list