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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:45 PM, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> I just stumbled across this collections of repos.
> Who are these repos controlled by? What does it
> take to get a repo listed here?
>
> What's the strategy/goal/purpose of this repo collection.
>
> It says /user/ so are these just ordinary users?

As far as I know, any gentoo user can create a repository there, so
long as they are going to use it for something Gentoo-related.

Just file a bug under the Gentoo Overlays component.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Gentoo%20Infrastructure&component=Gentoo%20Overlays

See also this blog entry:

https://blog.hartwork.org/?p=843