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 DC86A138972 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:18:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9113E21C0CB; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:18:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ia0-f179.google.com (mail-ia0-f179.google.com [209.85.210.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 86B9B21C016 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:18:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ia0-f179.google.com with SMTP id x24so5765306iak.10 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:18:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=KkGY0BzWlj1NNyYOhx8XPphY28eoEXdHpAH2jIoaUWQ=; b=Sfq9jlD/Sf/PHPuIvOPio9agVkNRtS2tU9J/9lqzaWdho7CxBSpu7YZI79/1nucSIC uBoBJnguXFmg5CabUfdWxzCuM8aBoqz1XP6AbUjELrdfPimiIZsV0Pev9+EwnSBKh59x 2/21Tv9j3G+a5CIzR+MUHZzuYfjABVFdGkSBzJaTcB9j1avc3iWwgRu1yGkkyslcXQgd 4TpHaypyO2XWy3KjU8ajvO0m31q3OP3LKpdwUZRG/t7uiAmBtKsVz+WjdhJjZYfLSp3Z 8wRKd61joXpCUD9lIU9ZedudV0YUGW/EnEXCN9KsZngWoPLiZnvTU4HUUZv8dXg2ZY1U frZQ== 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 X-Received: by 10.43.62.12 with SMTP id wy12mr15440988icb.19.1360513085802; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:18:05 -0800 (PST) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.64.30.231 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:18:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <1360486867.26312.0.camel@belkin4> <511788EE.1010307@gentoo.org> <20130210124849.28034a8c@pomiocik.lan> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:18:05 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: mGSUjF5rTo6sbdPu2EAlLc1CDL4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: media-gfx/picasa, dev-python/papyon, net-voip/telepathy-butterfly, sci-visualization/paraview, x11-misc/xdaf From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev Cc: patrick@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: c2f939a5-227d-4233-81d4-cfec63c08e78 X-Archives-Hash: 28c256a54b2cd68b5c45795b35dd3cac On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 10 February 2013 20:11, Rich Freeman wrote: >> Otherwise, purpose-driven overlays just make sense - they allow a >> different set of contributors who are more familiar/interested in a >> set of packages to maintain them. > > It makes more sense to let those people be proxy-maintainers and keep > those packages in the main tree. I'm all for that, but until the barriers to that become lower than the barriers to just creating your own overlay, there will always be overlays that contain stuff better maintained that the corresponding stuff in the main tree. I fully support anything that will make proxy-maintenance easier. Rich