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Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: |
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| On Sunday 11 December 2005 22:27, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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|>How do you plan to keep this in sync with changes in the regular tree? |
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|>How is our own solution superior to getting together with gentopia or |
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|>something similar that already exists? |
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| Like I said anything that gets moved into portage will be deleted from |
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the |
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| overlay. I could probably write a script to check for conflicts but I |
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didn't |
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| envisage this being a major problem. I don't think it is necessarily |
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superior |
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| to gentopia or the php overlay - what would be the advantage of getting |
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| together with them? |
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No need to maintain duplicate infrastructures. |
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|>OK, so this overlay is only for new packages, and not for changes to |
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|>existing ones? |
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| Originally it was intended for new ebuilds, alphas, betas (e.g. the grace |
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| betas) and experimental stuff. I thought it would be a good place to try |
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| things out, and once they were working to put into portage. Also as a |
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good |
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| place to help train new developers that come to the herd and foster a |
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greater |
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| range of scientific applications in Gentoo. |
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OK. I can definitely see training. Some people do prefer overlays for |
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ebuilds in progress, but I prefer -* keywords and keeping them in the |
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tree so all the history stays in the same place. In the same vein, I use |
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package.mask for beta's rather than a separate overlay. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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