From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OW8kc-000389-Oi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:04:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2EDCE0A59 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 14:03:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com (mail1.nippynetworks.com [212.227.250.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8EB2E084F for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 13:31:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC966744ED for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 14:31:21 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at nippynetworks.com Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id qitg5ohIE8Tu for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 14:31:21 +0100 (BST) Received: from Ed-Wildgooses-MacBook-Pro.local (office.nippynetworks.com [94.194.201.187]) (Authenticated sender: edward@wildgooses.com) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 908666744E0 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 14:31:21 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4C333028.1090306@wildgooses.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:31:20 +0100 From: Ed W User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] [bugzilla-daemon@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)] References: <20100705232904.GB581@nibiru.local> <20100706103033.21783.qmail@stuge.se> In-Reply-To: <20100706103033.21783.qmail@stuge.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ad3bfa60-a047-4be0-9f14-91221b49799b X-Archives-Hash: 48c18a33e1a667233755f391c9cfffb1 On 06/07/2010 11:30, Peter Stuge wrote: > Hi Enrico, > > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >> does he speak for all of you ? >> > OSS-QM strikes me personally as an odd solution. It could of course > be the right thing to do just the same, but I guess you will have to > make it more popular before it becomes a de-facto standard. > > If you feel strongly about it (I guess you do) then I would suggest > that you make your own Gentoo overlay with all the packages. That way > it's be easy for anyone interested to test it out. > > The concept seems interesting though and as you say, exactly what an overlay should help with. I couldn't quickly find the official pages for OSS-QM, but some googling suggests there is a limited overlay available already here: http://repo.or.cz/w/oss-qm-packages.git/tree/GENTOO.overlay.master Good luck Ed W