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 E68101381F3 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:05:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 09CA3E09EE; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:05:34 +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 15FC8E09D5 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:05:33 +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 D5F4D33E14B for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:05:31 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <51B8AA59.8010603@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:05:29 +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> <51B8A904.6060406@gentoo.org> <20130612180255.59f313b3@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130612180255.59f313b3@googlemail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 0dcf1ed6-0144-417a-b23f-16fbb0dba2ba X-Archives-Hash: 96b3a4e10596ce6e8b861e263d753124 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/2013 07:02 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:59:48 +0200 hasufell > 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRuKpZAAoJEFpvPKfnPDWza5EH/3Oc6ytKY9jH88DSWKO+WIeW eXv49f0SL2+VOGdpZ7as4rZSTNBktCsLAuug05F+iQyCOhXBQkYYetLJPEt6W7Fa LSMFFov2/jdGLIN1WhNzCHpjpvKs2vx5A28jcm/Iz6liYkSYw4jbd1MP0gb0pKBT 8oaUNL3KVQGhPJekEF+9+W/akeXoy5cCGUbngWghZtAhAN3k/H+QRsmToaq1/yK8 BnrHv9UXnh88k3KbAhrvfNjce8Oom6/Gf3XS7MjBxnQM323CbrZzoj0fJL6czvLa safA3gaVSTkK+FGmaz9oZv+hqmNUG1wWa020jt/UP88zVuQZoRr3y6yS9fDVKUo= =en4R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----