From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Over-reliance of Gentoo projects on overlays
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:23:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B8AE78.5030702@orlitzky.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130612181312.774d0bd1@googlemail.com>
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On 06/12/2013 01:13 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:05:29 +0200 hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
>>> Isn't it more an indication that Gentoo needs better package
>>> management support for overlays?
>
>> No.
>
> You make a persuasive argument. I realise now that the Summer of
> Code projects for this were a mistake.
>
>
We need worse support for overlays, i.e. no. Having to use >3 overlays
defeats the purpose of a QA'd tree. Everything in an (official)
overlay should be in package.mask instead. The main reason it isn't is
because nobody wants to use CVS. For good examples, see sunrise or
gentoo-haskell.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-12 17:23 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
2013-06-12 17:13 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-06-12 17:19 ` hasufell
2013-06-12 17:23 ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
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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