From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] sci team help
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:15:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071016101459.GU23990@supernova> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071016100438.GA4220@zealot>
On 13:04 Tue 16 Oct , Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> Somehow, I feel, personally, that the sci-packages should constitute
> an exception from the general rules regarding overlays. I mean that
> when a person chooses to use something from, say, Xfce overlay, the
> use of an overlay is rather natural and pleasant, but when a person is
> "forced" to use an overlay in order to write a Ph.D thesis, the use of
> an overlay can be far from pleasant. In my opinion overlays can not
> escape additional concerns regarding quality and trust, and these
> concerns are much more strongly felt when we are dealing with
> scientific packages. Again the keyword may just be the perception.
"keyword" is the key word. If we were to do this, we'd have to manage
the keywords and masking more carefully (or at all!) in the overlays.
That gives a better indication of quality than the arbitrary assumption
of "portage tree good, overlay bad" that we have now.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-15 18:39 [gentoo-science] sci team help Sébastien Fabbro
2007-10-15 19:09 ` C Y
2007-10-15 19:11 ` Yuriy Rusinov
2007-10-15 20:26 ` Sébastien Fabbro
2007-10-23 15:16 ` Redouane Boumghar
2007-10-15 20:14 ` Donnie Berkholz
2007-10-15 21:02 ` Jukka Ruohonen
2007-10-16 1:19 ` Markus Luisser
2007-10-16 9:50 ` Sébastien Fabbro
2007-10-16 10:18 ` Sébastien Fabbro
2007-10-16 5:01 ` Andrey G. Grozin
2007-10-16 7:20 ` Donnie Berkholz
2007-10-16 9:54 ` Sébastien Fabbro
2007-10-16 10:04 ` Jukka Ruohonen
2007-10-16 10:15 ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2007-10-16 2:41 ` Nuno Sucena Almeida
2007-10-16 13:57 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2007-10-16 15:03 ` Sébastien Fabbro
2007-10-16 19:11 ` Nuno Sucena Almeida
2007-10-16 22:51 ` Donnie Berkholz
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