Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

["Jesús Guerrero" <i92guboj@terra.es>]

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:47:27 -0400, Richard Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
wrote:
> Jesús Guerrero wrote:
>> 
>> Most Gentoo users will have no problem to use overlays as they need
>> them. If we had more developers we could as maintain more packages,
>> as simple as that.
>> 
> 
> I actually tend to agree with this position,

It's not something to agree or disagree. There aren't developers to
maintain
all the software under the sun, period.

> however to use overlays as 
> a valid solution for end-users we need to do more to support them. 

Yeah, devs for that as well.

> Right now it is at least a little painful to get set up with an overlay.


No, it's a matter of using layman -a <whatever>

>   There also isn't really any official place to vet overlays, and there 
> isn't any official source for overlays that aren't maintained by gentoo.
> 
> Sure, overlays.g.o has tons of overlays - but which ones are 
> mostly-stable, and which ones are intended to break systems?  What is 
> the QA policy for each overlay?  If I'm an end-user not interested in 
> breaking my system, what overlays are safe for me to use?

There's no policy. Just like unofficial repos for any other distro.
We can't control that. It's outside Gentoo.

While I agree that having more packages and being more up to date is
a good thing, I can never agree that we should sacrifice Gentoo for that.
You want stability for what I see on your answer, well, that's what you
have. I don't think we can do any more with the number of developers we
have right now unless we start dumping blindingly and without any check
every ebuild that we get across.

-- 
Jesús Guerrero