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 1Elaul-0001LG-KK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:47:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBBNkuiA028851; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:46:56 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBBNktDR015698 for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:46:55 GMT Received: from c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net ([67.171.150.177] helo=[192.168.1.106]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1Elau7-0007AE-05 for gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:46:55 +0000 Message-ID: <439CBA6E.3090709@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 15:46:54 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051031) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] Gentoo scientific overlay References: <200512112028.40778.cryos@gentoo.org> <439CA7E7.3060705@gentoo.org> <200512112256.38433.cryos@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200512112256.38433.cryos@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6717b140-58e4-4c35-9697-b39824367e33 X-Archives-Hash: 844789d550fcb426ceda3142434c870b -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: | On Sunday 11 December 2005 22:27, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |>How do you plan to keep this in sync with changes in the regular tree? |>How is our own solution superior to getting together with gentopia or |>something similar that already exists? |> | | Like I said anything that gets moved into portage will be deleted from the | overlay. I could probably write a script to check for conflicts but I didn't | envisage this being a major problem. I don't think it is necessarily superior | to gentopia or the php overlay - what would be the advantage of getting | together with them? No need to maintain duplicate infrastructures. |>OK, so this overlay is only for new packages, and not for changes to |>existing ones? |> | | Originally it was intended for new ebuilds, alphas, betas (e.g. the grace | betas) and experimental stuff. I thought it would be a good place to try | things out, and once they were working to put into portage. Also as a good | place to help train new developers that come to the herd and foster a greater | range of scientific applications in Gentoo. OK. I can definitely see training. Some people do prefer overlays for ebuilds in progress, but I prefer -* keywords and keeping them in the tree so all the history stays in the same place. In the same vein, I use package.mask for beta's rather than a separate overlay. Thanks, Donnie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDnLpuXVaO67S1rtsRAoolAJ49GaEGC6Odmh5c4bocCZoxmhX5tQCeOCqd bM5aybWXVCyVfva/QJ3cnIQ= =wz7c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-science@gentoo.org mailing list