Re: [gentoo-dev] Over-reliance of Gentoo projects on overlays

[Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Alexander V Vershilov
<alexander.vershilov@gmail.com> wrote:
> The main point that haskell ecosystem is very breaky and only latest
> version is supported, so
> the safest path is to be on a bleeding edge and patch inconsistent
> applications. So if one
> package gets updated then commonly we need to fix its reversed deps,
> if it were in tree than
> we would be involved into stabilization process and in the end will
> delay updating deps, and
> the difficulty of tracking all version variant will be much higher
> than no, at the end the quality
> of the packages in tree will fall.  Really we can _guarantee_ that
> everything work in overlay
> but there is either no technical or bureaucracy reasons that prevent
> from fixing as soon as
> possible.

Still seems like working in gentoo-x86 without doing stabilization
would cover most of those bases. Working in the unstable main tree is
still a lot better than keeping stuff out there in an overlay, IMO.

Cheers,

Dirkjan