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 902831381F3 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:00:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20A3BE09B7; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:59:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D580E0968 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:59:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.4.5] (blfd-4d083315.pool.mediaWays.net [77.8.51.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hasufell) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8261A335DF3 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:59:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <51B8A904.6060406@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:59:48 +0200 From: hasufell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130606 Thunderbird/17.0.6 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] Over-reliance of Gentoo projects on overlays References: <20130612185126.15f142b0@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20130612185126.15f142b0@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 4134e8e2-ae16-4886-bbb4-5a2966dfc58a X-Archives-Hash: 01ddbe05c0fd127ee9c6187a61fb58c9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/2013 06:51 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Teams, what are the main reasons for keeping that much stuff in > overlays? > It's a mix of easier workflow especially for contributors and less responsibility/noise in case of bugs. If there is a bug in an overlay, you rather expect people to come up with a pull request. Herds relying heavily on overlays and their portage packages being far behind their overlay is just a prove that the herd is dying and needs assistance. That goes especially for science. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRuKkEAAoJEFpvPKfnPDWzafoH/3YI+qPoOUuAUka7KjEtUMgP Y2duMnyIxlYFGQF9VYCT6ARNdg87qACbPKgYhI0ExxQrKZ7BC4m+IJCpiUdzUQW5 BiKnk80KMp1Tdl98b/5EmODwkmQeEmGTlfZtkXMnx2pfs4e+5E+U04n/HDwsydue W8jw6LnDdv4CrjaGpfNgZmmu+R4/opymravixq7Oh7JZ848hXijTY3sGfah3a7zB 4I5zzsTZ17GA9x5xr5Qhz+VJGvkODLNDnkKsMMLT7QIPlQUZX9Wqzu55Qu94WQsd gtrf3/RbtyrBZe9XyTgUqhb1uHlbsjlhOxtD68YRBOQ/BGXvU5wFMuwY5gIZxsc= =lH9A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----