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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New metastructure proposal
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:13:40
Message-Id: 200704112011.33774.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New metastructure proposal by Brandon Edens
1 On Wednesday 11 April 2007, Brandon Edens wrote:
2 > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:59:35AM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
3 > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:32:49 +0200
4 > > Alexandre Buisse <nattfodd@g.o> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > [snip]
7 > >
8 > > > Please criticize this with everything constructive you > can think of.
9 > >
10 > > This idea of putting almost everything into its own repo/overlay will IMO
11 > > end up in the same mess that several other distros have with tons of 3rd
12 > > party repos that don't play nice with each other. In case you don't know,
13 > > the "one stop" philosophy with one central repo is what attracts a lot of
14 > > people to Gentoo.
15 >
16 > I think a lot of the problems with those other distributions and their 3rd
17 > party repositories is related to the fact that they are binary-based
18 > distributions and we are not.
19
20 ever put that to the test and build things up from the .spec files ? it's
21 still hell on wheels
22 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New metastructure proposal Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>