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From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Diff between Funtoo and Gentoo as an overlay
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:44:50
Message-Id: 4A90045F.6020002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Diff between Funtoo and Gentoo as an overlay by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2
3 > Of course that's my personal opinion. I don't use
4 > "developer/experimental" overlays, I only use those who provide some
5 > extra packages I want. And I was under the impression that pure-funtoo
6 > falls under this category: providing packages that don't exist in portage.
7
8 By the nature of Funtoo being a entirely different distribution, that is
9 a wrong assumption. It is unreasonable to expect the pure-funtoo overlay
10 owner to mask everything that is an upgrade but not in portage yet. I
11 would recommend that you remove the pure-funtoo overlay, because your
12 expectations don't match reality.
13
14 -Jeremy