| 1 |
Thomas Cort wrote: |
| 2 |
>> Thoughts on ideas on this somewhat more focussed idea? ( or at least I |
| 3 |
>> think it's more focused :P ) |
| 4 |
> |
| 5 |
> Will there be restrictions on what can go into these overlays? There |
| 6 |
> are some ebuilds that aren't allowed in the main portage tree. One |
| 7 |
> example is winex-cvs (see |
| 8 |
> app-emulation/winex-cvs/winex-cvs-3000.ebuild for details). |
| 9 |
|
| 10 |
Interesting comments, and I cannot blame them too much. |
| 11 |
|
| 12 |
> Another |
| 13 |
> example... an overlay dev could take an existing ebuild that has |
| 14 |
> RESTRICT="fetch" and modify it to fetch the package directly without |
| 15 |
> user interaction. |
| 16 |
|
| 17 |
Yes, this one is a good example. |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
So, in order not to be utterly responsible for distributing such things |
| 20 |
as *semi-offcial* gentoo work, I'd suggest just providing a bit easier |
| 21 |
way to use external overlays than the current one (which is easy enough |
| 22 |
once you set it up, but generally hard for n00bs). |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
I have my own overlay for quite some time and it had helped a few people, |
| 25 |
not counting me (/me != dev) [1] |
| 26 |
|
| 27 |
[1] http://rsync.tar.bz/ |
| 28 |
|
| 29 |
I know this is always a topic on whether to have a knife is good or bad, |
| 30 |
and whether just possessing a gun makes you a bad guy... |
| 31 |
Same is here - if there is a possibility some people will eventually |
| 32 |
abuse it. But is this enough to disallow it whatsoever. |
| 33 |
|
| 34 |
Kalin. |
| 35 |
|
| 36 |
|
| 37 |
-- |
| 38 |
|[ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ]| |
| 39 |
+-> http://ThinRope.net/ <-+ |
| 40 |
|[ ______________________ ]| |
| 41 |
|
| 42 |
-- |
| 43 |
gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
Archives