Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: media-gfx/picasa, dev-python/papyon, net-voip/telepathy-butterfly, sci-visualization/paraview, x11-misc/xdaf

[Rich Freeman]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
> On 10 February 2013 20:11, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
>> Otherwise, purpose-driven overlays just make sense - they allow a
>> different set of contributors who are more familiar/interested in a
>> set of packages to maintain them.
>
> It makes more sense to let those people be proxy-maintainers and keep
> those packages in the main tree.

I'm all for that, but until the barriers to that become lower than the
barriers to just creating your own overlay, there will always be
overlays that contain stuff better maintained that the corresponding
stuff in the main tree.

I fully support anything that will make proxy-maintenance easier.

Rich