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From: Javier Martinez <tazok.id0@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Do you trust these overlays?
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 18:51:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <62998a20-dfdc-4abe-89fc-22fbcb7e5c8b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6401858.DvuYhMxLoT@pygoscelis>


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El 2/7/25 a las 18:24, Nils Freydank escribió:
> I for myself don't trust *any* overlay beside my own, not even guru.
> This is mostly for stability and quality of ebuilds.
> 
> As a workound I copy ebuilds from time to time if licenses permit that which
> they mostly do, including proper attribution in case I republish in my own
> public overlay.
> 
> Am Samstag, 28. Juni 2025, 23:56:06 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb
> whiteman808:
>> Like in subject, do you gentoo users trust gentoo-zh and pentoo
>> overlays?
> 
If I would create my own overlay, the ebuild that you must use to 
install some unknown package by mistake would start making coffee. Not a 
bug, just a feature.

A lot of people does the best of their own in overlays, but mistakes 
could be everywhere

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      reply	other threads:[~2025-07-02 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-28 21:56 [gentoo-user] Do you trust these overlays? whiteman808
2025-07-02 16:24 ` Nils Freydank
2025-07-02 16:51   ` Javier Martinez [this message]

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