Re: [gentoo-dev] CVS ebuild's and Portage possibilities

[Mikael Hallendal]

sön 2001-10-28 klockan 12.56 skrev Bart Verwilst:
> Hi
>
> I think an integration would, like Hallski said, bring too many work and
> questions to the developers. Maybe a site that holds user-built cvs ebuilds
> would be nice, where the user can download the cvs ebuild he wants,
> on his/her own risk... Ofcourse those ebuilds have a big change of being
> full of bugs and/or useless, because most of the incoming ebuilds have to be
> debugged before being placed in portage, and the ones on the site wouldn't
> have had a checkup at all..

Imho, this shouldn't (or at least don't have too) be a centralized
website. If Joshua want's to distribute E17 ebuilds he can do so from
his site and point people there when they ask for it.

It should be hard for users to find these ebuilds and only those that
know what they are doing should use them. With a central website for
this people will try them out just for fun and end up with a halfworking
system.

Also, by having them at your own site it's much better chance they will
be up-to-date and working better than if you post them to some central
site.

_IF_ we have a central site for these kind of ebuilds it should be clear
that it is not part of the Portage project and we shouldn't link it from
Gentoo website.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

> On Sunday 28 October 2001 11:55, you wrote:
> ||  Afternoon Gents,
> ||
> ||  Last night I was sitting on IRC and conversing with pekdon in #gentoo
> || about e17 (Enlightenment DR 0.17) and the possibility of having compatable
> || ebuilds that work for software in development using CVS.
> ||
> ||  We came to the conclusion that we could have a directory in Portage
> || called cvs which is masked by default to prevent people not familiar with
> || cvs software from accidently downloading it. We would also not provide
> || support due to the nature of the software and we could enter disclaimers
> || on the ebuild asking for y/n input.
> ||
> ||  Please let me know if this is do-able as I would really like to see this
> || happen so we can still maintain a clean system with up to date software.
> ||
> ||  Regards,
> ||
> ||  Joshua
>
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> Bart Verwilst
> Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
> Gent, Belgium
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Mikael Hallendal
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CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden