From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FMUg2-0003y1-3S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:36:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2NIZxMh013364; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:35:59 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2NIVTmo000479 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:31:30 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m7so582117nzf for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:31:29 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OTaAKxQhPkzQOprbg1EkK4uVhgvoTDb3BnLlHd1Od8aNLljSL/woS1BygryzfroRkdeSpdoofUar8AXb83a+DreVhkcJFniv/YsIAXFS6dwCJGUtv3liV+Jl/HrpMSL3+h123hZf7A1kcKVI6xb+5QUwHZLXSOTWbQkMTXunWWU= Received: by 10.35.97.17 with SMTP id z17mr313pyl; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:31:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.107.17 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:31:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:31:24 +0100 From: "Stefan Schweizer" Sender: sschweizer@gmail.com To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support In-Reply-To: <1143137722.14434.48.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <441F35B9.8000406@gentoo.org> <4421836A.8040000@gentoo.org> <1143123468.14434.5.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <1143127901.14434.33.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <1143137722.14434.48.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2NIVTmo000479 X-Archives-Salt: 0e1d259d-7abf-44fa-b689-662b1d3c4933 X-Archives-Hash: 1da6407b6fcd9057a83ec34c4e69dec9 On 3/23/06, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Think about it this way, what if we had two competing products in the > tree that do the same thing, with the same file names? We would add a > blocker, no? So what mechanism is there to ensure that there's no > "blocking" issues between an official in-tree project, and these > external overlays that are not in the tree? With the tree, we have a > well-defined policy on this. What policy would we use for the overlays? What about if we just skip your "policies" and let the overlays be a free place where people can handle issues how they think it is right for the specific case and not how $super_dev said somewhere. That is what overlays are about, not? - Stefan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list