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

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 08/22/2009 05:56 PM, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> Sebastian Pipping wrote:
>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> Uhm, I just discovered that there are conflicts with portage too. That
>>> is not good. After I added pure-funtoo, it messed up my emerge -u world
>>> (stuff like wanting to upgrade to sys-apps/baselayout-2.1.5).
>>
>> Hopefully fixed
>> http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=pure-funtoo.git;a=commitdiff;h=341663321f0cf876390fff5967105e403ed3fcbc
>>
>
> See, the problem with this is when Gentoo itself gets a
> baselayout-2.1.x, then it is masked for them if they have the
> pure-funtoo overlay. IOW, people will complain one way, and then they
> will complain the other way. IMO, it is "busy work" for the overlay
> owner and should be left to the user to "know what they are doing"
> because all overlays are experimental.

That is not true generally though.  Most of them are of "experimental" 
nature, but some try to provide good, working and stable packages for 
stuff that can't make it into portage (no dev willing to adopt it, 
unpopular software, policy reasons, etc.)  Just because something isn't 
in portage doesn't mean it's always "experimental".