From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Foe30-0002YV-W8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:16:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k59AFZ6o017169; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:15:35 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k59ACcCC030645 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:12:38 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d80so778622pyd for ; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:12:38 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MZncCaxGQvbsN6KWks970TtKgRTzUmwpg2tc4Dyfdwrlqki08tvC/pbYA6WNpQRnqcRz1f8tYbx9sBEjN1ifo8Rfvhu16vSKLpOmuW2MR2HA6PIjAyQi7Ifd+E8CjatTq7BLJOXBHy6GEr82Dfd/eG1WKG7c1lO0jJK+Zt8QUU0= Received: by 10.35.99.5 with SMTP id b5mr3797290pym; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:12:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.12.19 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 03:12:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <623652d50606090312i64dbe70atb8ae0ad215a069ea@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 11:12:38 +0100 From: "Chris Bainbridge" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay In-Reply-To: <4488CDF4.1060009@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1149772819.19443.10.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20060608093213.e0ccb189.tcort@gentoo.org> <20060608144145.GA7696@cerberus.oppresses.us> <44883E56.7050506@gentoo.org> <1149781533.18059.30.camel@rivendell> <623652d50606080948i4a16f875tdfd4931d9a4bc1c1@mail.gmail.com> <4488CDF4.1060009@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: c017ff81-482a-4987-abaf-bd7a6ba1ee0b X-Archives-Hash: 55ead4f490ea4d5b6a0efc9a700a93c2 On 09/06/06, Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: > Yes, i agree, writting and maintaining ebuilds is a hard and > *time-consuming* task. > So if an user can't even take the time to fix a digest, why we should > support him > officially?. The point is that there are lots of users who are interested in niche packages that no developers use or are interested in. These users have the skills to write an ebuild, and other users of the package have the skills to fix and maintain that ebuild over time. These guys don't mind downloading ebuilds from bugzilla and fixing digests. But there are a larger class of users of niche packages that don't have the ebuild skills, and don't want the hassle of bugzilla and digest fixing. This larger group of users are the ones that would benefit from an overlay. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list