From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MasxN-00070d-Nz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:08:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD51BE02DE; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:08:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.146]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C236CE02DE for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:08:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so1296714qwk.10 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:08:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JrY1oXcjQb868s0Msb1FZe+u6dRk77rJs64xaT7/qHI=; b=xj5LGyNttZ3K6pWHbj7wWruKZ2gGbTqsJcIJei3BOwENAPgZQ8ONC+iix+xfG5zFwg SPaKfLyHbcM8AvUaX7XlPPlaJcmbCc2ZMo856T39Hi9xETeS1GF9Wc066/rs5C5WSdPp 2HAeAiwcNIULHDOoAGZSmZAPS39+m81z8Qr7I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=i1RWCUbUq3uzUTtwmERFxT7snmcnzUUzAmr+qfdvqnQM1D9q78KWa3SCsAPFZTQVmB 3K6Zy32lCTNn6sIZwVPdEdZgqzRbQqIUIMlV26ter8rzTye71dvgoM7iB5ixNfMBIY/o 6YVgUMsDExJbrZAQ3t0j/Lc8ndz1ef1E54SBk= 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 Sender: arunissatan@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.54.146 with SMTP id q18mr24222qcg.53.1250003287107; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:08:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A817368.9010704@hartwork.org> References: <4A809EFA.4070801@gentoo.org> <4A80ED65.8030600@gentoo.org> <4A80F639.6070206@gentoo.org> <4A810FA6.4050003@gentoo.org> <4A817368.9010704@hartwork.org> From: Arun Raghavan Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:37:47 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: c5dd35eb2ed9ecff Message-ID: <6f8b45100908110807v25f71537t4772624b0d7a957b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multimedia overlay To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 070c3fdf-4f1a-4e71-933b-4f267b33e74a X-Archives-Hash: 8f3eea88740570a4c9cec8caffa3aaad 2009/8/11 Sebastian Pipping : > Josh Saddler wrote: >> I'm well aware of that. It's A Dumb Policy(tm). :) > > What advantage do you see in forcing people to have their overlays > hosted on http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/ ? The advantage is primarily that we retain control of the infrastructure on which it (the official Gentoo project) is hosted. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)