[gentoo-dev] Re: Diff between Funtoo and Gentoo as an overlay

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 08/22/2009 04:27 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
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> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 08/22/2009 06:40 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
>>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> Huh? This is true of all overlays.
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>> Not the ones I'm using.
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> Have you ever used the X11, GNOME or KDE teams overlays?

Nope.  I had to remove them again due to the problem I mentioned.


> Most of the
> overlays around exist so that people can work on important updates to
> existing packages or to test new ideas / features.
> In that respect, sunrise is a "special overlay" as it follows the rule
> that it must not contain any package in the tree. IOW, overlays having
> just new packages, not present in the tree or other overlays, are the
> exception, not the norm.

They are pretty much the only ones I use though (at this time, 
interactive-fiction, oss-overlay and sunrise.)  The others are a pain to 
keep due to portage not being able to use only packages from overlays 
that don't exist in portage.

Of course that's my personal opinion.  I don't use 
"developer/experimental" overlays, I only use those who provide some 
extra packages I want.  And I was under the impression that pure-funtoo 
falls under this category: providing packages that don't exist in portage.