From: hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Over-reliance of Gentoo projects on overlays
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:05:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B8AA59.8010603@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130612180255.59f313b3@googlemail.com>
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On 06/12/2013 07:02 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:59:48 +0200 hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Isn't it more an indication that Gentoo needs better package
> management support for overlays?
>
>
No.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-12 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-12 16:51 [gentoo-dev] Over-reliance of Gentoo projects on overlays Michał Górny
2013-06-12 16:59 ` hasufell
2013-06-12 17:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-06-12 17:05 ` hasufell [this message]
2013-06-12 17:13 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-06-12 17:19 ` hasufell
2013-06-12 17:23 ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-06-13 4:56 ` Alexander V Vershilov
2013-06-13 6:51 ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2013-06-16 4:08 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2013-06-16 7:36 ` Alexander V Vershilov
2013-06-17 0:50 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2013-06-15 3:32 ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-06-13 5:44 ` Michał Górny
2013-06-13 8:29 ` René Neumann
2013-06-12 20:10 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2013-06-13 3:37 ` Rich Freeman
2013-06-12 20:32 ` gmt
2013-06-29 18:22 ` Thomas Kahle
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