1 |
On Thursday 23 March 2006 16:31, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
2 |
> No. It isn't. Look in many developer overlays and you'll see packages |
3 |
> that they have made that work how *they* want them to, even if it is |
4 |
> *very* different from what is in the tree. This is the case for |
5 |
> packages that are not maintained by them, too. Any ebuild that is done |
6 |
> by someone that isn't the maintainer is a fork. There's nothing |
7 |
> "hostile" about it. |
8 |
> |
9 |
Probably this is the reason that my personal overlay is not "public". For |
10 |
example it contains a gtk+ version with the save dialog "fixed". |
11 |
|
12 |
> I see no problem with overlays in concept, such as the php overlay that |
13 |
> is very successful. The main reason that it is successful is because |
14 |
> the same people that maintain php maintain the overlay. Yes, there are |
15 |
> other contributors, but the maintainers of the overlay are still the |
16 |
> developers. I see no problem with providing these sorts of overlays to |
17 |
> bridge the gap between contributing users and developers. I *do* see a |
18 |
> problem with simply allowing random overlays from any developer for |
19 |
> anything. |
20 |
|
21 |
On the other hand, my personal overlay contains various fixes to packages I |
22 |
use, but who are from other developers. As I'm not the maintainer I don't |
23 |
always bother to post bugs, and find it wrong to fix it without telling the |
24 |
maintainer. Other ebuilds concern packages that are unmaintained or not |
25 |
stable enough. It also contains my own kde meta packages that select only |
26 |
that part of kde that I want. |
27 |
|
28 |
I can only assume that other developers have similar overlays too. These |
29 |
overlays form actually a wealth of resources that are hidden away. If there |
30 |
were a semi-public overlay system in which developers could keep their |
31 |
overlays, this might help in getting this out to the public. |
32 |
|
33 |
Paul |
34 |
|
35 |
-- |
36 |
Paul de Vrieze |
37 |
Gentoo Developer |
38 |
Mail: pauldv@g.o |
39 |
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |