Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support

["Stuart Herbert" <stuart.herbert@gmail.com>]

Hi Chris,

On 3/24/06, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> As I've said, my only request is a single policy that before an overlay
> can become publicly readable on overlays.gentoo.org (which is Gentoo
> infrastructure) that it does not break packages in the main tree that
> are not in the overlay.
>
> If this single policy were in place, then I would fully support
> overlays.gentoo.org being created.

I accept the principle.  I've just one question about the practice.

Overlays will (probably more often than not) contain packages that
have problems.  For example, I'm thinking of when we developed the new
PHP packages, the packages delivered PHP in a new way, with different
USE flags.  We deliberately added a blocker, so that dev-lang/php and
dev-php/php (the version from the tree) couldn't be installed at the
same time.  This meant that, until the webapps had their DEPs updated,
if you had PHP from the overlay installed, it would block webapps from
the tree from installing (because they depended on dev-php/php).

Do you consider a practice like that to violate the policy you seek?

Best regards,
Stu

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