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On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:50:07 -0600 |
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Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o> wrote: |
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> So you are asking for the layman file to be updated properly or what? |
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I assume for now that you meant [1]. As far as I can tell, that file |
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would be useable if it didn't just follow whatever policy is set up for |
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layman access to overlays. There are a few minor problems with it, like |
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the filename and filename extension both being misleading (yes, I know |
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it really is a "txt" file :), and the fact that none of the Overlays |
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project's documentation mentions it. |
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I'd hate to introduce duplication and as it does seem like |
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> layman -i <overlay name> |
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will depend on that URL for a good while yet, the filename changes |
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aren't important. It _is_ important to get the file documented by the |
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Overlays project so that the Bug Wranglers project (a QA sub-project) |
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can depend on that. |
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> IMO, what would really benefit us is to have a site akin to |
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> http://gpo.zugaina.org/ on a Gentoo host to *find* packages that are |
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> in 'official' overlays. |
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That sounds nice. Same goes for files -> packages, of course. |
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Kind regards, |
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jer |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt |
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