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Francisco Gimeno wrote: |
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> Hi |
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> I was wondering about having several portage trees to allow external |
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> distributor having repositories of packages. |
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> It could be really useful, if we could use something like it |
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This has been brought up before and I personally do not really like the |
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idea too much, i think it makes the distro less reliable as whole if we |
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add options like this. People will start using repositories here and |
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there and in the end we will get bugreports on ebuilds we never approved |
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or even saw (and some ebuilds can have far reaching effects). No, i |
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think 'external distributors' should try and go trough the normal |
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channels and get their ebuilds Gentoo approved. |
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> I think it solves a lot of complains about flexibility and edging of Gentoo. |
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What complaints ? Is it so hard to download an ebuild in put it in your |
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local overlay ? The extra step required does make sure you are aware |
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that you are using non-approved ebuilds. |
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- foser |
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