Re: [gentoo-dev] The uncertain future of repository mirrors

[Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org>]

On 21/03/2025 14.32, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
> 
> TL;DR: I'm thinking of shutting down all gentoo-mirror repositories,
> except for gentoo and guru.

Somewhat related: we may want to consider slightly raising the bar for 
adding new (user) overlays. When mangling the overlay addition requests, 
there are requests for overlays containing only a few, sometimes even 
just one, package(s).

I believe in many cases, GURU would be a better place for those ebuilds, 
instead of having an them in an additional overlay. I usually encourage 
users to maintain their ebuilds in GURU instead of an extra overlay.

Of course, this should not be seen as black and white. There may be 
valid reasons for an extra overlay. But we should at least ask the user 
to consider using GURU instead.

- Flow