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hasufell wrote: |
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> there should only be two reasons to have ebuilds in a seperate |
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> overlay: they depend on dropped packages or they are unsupportable |
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> (e.g. because they are in early alpha stage or broken in some ways). |
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Keep in mind that there may be lots of other cases which you have not |
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and can not think of. Overlays are a wonderfully powerful way to |
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arbitrarily extend Gentoo. They make Gentoo infinitely more useful. |
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Anyway, in the case of my overlay, the reason that I have it is very |
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simple: me becoming a dev needs way too much effort. |
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It sounds like the sci overlay situation is the same. |
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I don't really mind this situation in practise, but Gentoo of course |
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loses. :\ |
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//Peter |
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