From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D504313896A for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:51:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D52F621C0AA; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:51:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.plaimi.net (107.4.189.109.customer.cdi.no [109.189.4.107]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C110521C098 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:51:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.plaimi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B2D3040D13 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:51:04 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=plaimi.net; s=leet; t=1360500664; bh=iWzpLI9wn4/tGVvQKQISWedAL9XkS/VxGWJaacL/3W0=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Zvgrkq1yC1G12aITlhBh2wvMUPOq7w+LouLEEolGkKmqMrnE4q0B6E4yAeA0a2NM8 ZzEjZkQSVVNL0lvKSbOydAn1m4RaruUa+DcYl3nHhbxpsnzBitb+iWpay5YwibfhrK acE0Qs2VUForpT45VLHRgig/8FmRZx9mJzhfs5xg= Message-ID: <511797C4.3010208@plaimi.net> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:51:16 +0100 From: Alexander Berntsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130121 Thunderbird/17.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: media-gfx/picasa, dev-python/papyon, net-voip/telepathy-butterfly, sci-visualization/paraview, x11-misc/xdaf References: <1360486867.26312.0.camel@belkin4> <511788EE.1010307@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <511788EE.1010307@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e94331d0-1acc-48ab-a9fd-184c4c319331 X-Archives-Hash: 2e5274ce5c0358d108e319eebcfb1d35 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 10/02/13 12:47, Patrick Lauer wrote: > So instead of moving things from random overlays to the tree we > remove packages now, remove features from other packages because of > that (openfoam) and then ... tell users to use an overlay? > > Somehow this appears not well thought out to me. +1 On 10/02/13 13:11, Rich Freeman wrote: > There is nothing wrong with having an overlay that provides a > better experience than the main tree. Most distros actually > operate this way Most distros aren't very good. > - just look up your average non-core piece of FOSS software and the > first thing their Ubuntu install instructions will tell you to do > is to add some repository to your list. And the second search result is the Ubuntu troubleshooting broken installs as a result of adding other repositories. I accept that there may exist reasons for using overlays. "Ubuntu do it!" is not one. - -- Alexander alexander@plaimi.net http://plaimi.net/~alexander -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlEXl8QACgkQRtClrXBQc7UKOAD+P7mFavgADIecwTm5jKLEnbq/ h81FRf2qbvwf54X6T9YA/RJ4y1EAesZOvxvpuIVTEKpLwcTipgWJZeExzWReAn/7 =po4x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----