>  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.

but one of the few good things about gentoo, in relation to other
distro's, 1 tree no repos, continues to fall further and further
apart.

-- 
Caleb Cushing

http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com