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On 15 February 2013 00:19, Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu> wrote: |
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> On 15/02/2013 01:15, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> How? We don't support overlays in the main tree. I could see a |
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>> package maintainer being nice if pinged by an overlay maintainer and |
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>> delaying some change for a short time to let an overlay be updated, |
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>> but issues that impact overlays should not be considered blockers on |
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>> closing bugs on the main tree. |
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> The problem is when you have to triple-check that the user hasn't |
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> enabled some random fucked up overlay and you have to guess whether that |
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> might be the cause of the problem. Yes it happens, not so rarely. |
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That's not a good argument. You can't stop people from using whatever |
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external sources they want. But you can easily |
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spot what they use from a simple eix -e <broken-package> or emerge |
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--info and close the bug as INVALID in the blink of an eye |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang |
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