Caleb Cushing wrote:
>>  Are we to say that we shouldn't allow tools to have support for this.  I
>> think that it is a nature progression that if we are to allow overlays to
>> extend the portage tree that we should allow overlays to extend other
>> overlays.
> 
> I probably shouldn't butt in...
> 
> first, no I don't want you to merge java-overlay and
> java-experimental, that's a bad idea (well at least for me)
> 
> second. I generally think anything beyond a personal overlay is crap.
> All these overlays like sunrise, java-overlay, and on and on...
> basically official, overlays that have qa and are pretty stable. are
> crap. they should be in the tree. an overlay for developers is fine,
> you know. where you are working on stuff... stuff that someone who
> wouldn't want to hack on it wouldn't want, because it's too broken.
> 

Please point me to the people willing and having the time to maintain
those >100 new ebuilds in the main tree.

Regards,
Petteri