Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Peter Abrahamsen <rainhead@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Prefix keywords in main tree
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:16:23
Message-Id: e3171c650904301616x97c1f08h197b9db3296d25e1@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Prefix keywords in main tree by Michael Haubenwallner
1 Hello Haubi,
2
3 > I think I'm going a different way: cancel this glep, use already
4 > established methods instead. I plan to do my own stable keywords in my
5 > local tree, and when users want to have more packages, they simply can
6 > use the main tree as overlay.
7
8 Hmm. Can you elaborate a little on this? Isn't it a lot of work to
9 keep all those packages up to date? And as soon as one of your users
10 adds the main tree as an overlay, those packages will take precedence
11 over your own, carefully-maintained tree?
12
13 Thanks,
14 Peter

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Re: [gentoo-alt] Prefix keywords in main tree Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o>