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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 22:35:46
Message-Id: 51EC623C.4010508@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree by "Michał Górny"
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4 On 07/22/2013 12:33 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > Dnia 2013-07-22, o godz. 00:16:31 hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
6 > napisał(a):
7 >
8 >> On 07/22/2013 12:07 AM, Duncan wrote:
9 >>> hasufell posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:22:24 +0200 as
10 >>> excerpted:
11 >>>
12 >>>> solution: Treeclean it and maintain it in an overlay (maybe
13 >>>> science-overlay). That's exactly what overlays are for...
14 >>>> experimental stuff.
15 >>>
16 >>> What's the pros/cons of overlay vs. in-tree-but-masked for
17 >>> something like this? In-tree-but-masked is at least available
18 >>> for those who want it, without having to load an overlay, but I
19 >>> don't see that discussed at all, here.
20 >>>
21 >>
22 >> cons: - users have to run "layman -a foo" ...I hope they will
23 >> manage (and the masking reason will be updated to explain where
24 >> to look for googleearth ebuilds)
25 >
26 > Then to get *a single package* they start using the whole overlay.
27 > If it's a sane overlay, fine. But some overlays really replace a
28 > lot of stuff silently and trigger failures we didn't even imagine
29 > before.
30 >
31
32 No.
33
34 I'd either use a separate single-purpose overlay or add it to
35 science-overlay.
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