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 1FN7S6-0002eB-Hi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:01:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2PBxhPh027571; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:59:43 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2PBtwVg017318 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:55:59 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FN7N8-0001cD-F4 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:55:58 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FN7N2-000270-73 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:55:52 +0100 Received: from ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:55:52 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:55:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: overlay support current proposal? Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:55:39 -0700 Organization: Organization? Me? Message-ID: References: <20060324193534.GA24818@dst.grantgoodyear.org> <200603241506.54915.dostrow@gentoo.org> <20060325064751.GA8104@trolocsis.dyndns.org> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 461194cc-792f-46d5-85c8-fc6896ba5ee7 X-Archives-Hash: 375b195e00c33b962ad01fe5cf19470b Ryan Phillips posted <20060325064751.GA8104@trolocsis.dyndns.org>, excerpted below, on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:47:51 -0800: > We need to pick one VCS and only one. Having multiple systems > requires users to install multiple applications and learn each one. > Not all of them are easy to pick up. Plus, it would be nice to be > able to merge from the overlays to the Portage trunk. Keep in mind that due to the potential overlay overlap issues, most users will likely only use one or two of the overlays and that would certainly be the recommended approach. Thus, they'll merge and learn (if necessary) whatever their chosen overlay is using, and not worry about the others. Advanced users and devs able to deal with the potential conflicts of multiple overlays shouldn't have difficulty managing multiple version control systems, and they'll be the only ones that have to worry about it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list