Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Alexey Sokolov <alexey+gentoo@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New QA policy suggestion: Disallow "live-only" packages
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:24:45
Message-Id: 066687e6-f1a2-856d-8182-a616c59eda7f@asokolov.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New QA policy suggestion: Disallow "live-only" packages by "Marty E. Plummer"
1 04.11.2020 19:10, Marty E. Plummer пишет:
2 > On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 07:13:32AM +0200, Joonas Niilola wrote:
3 >> Hey,
4 >>
5 > <-snip->
6 > Just my 2c, One of the major reasons I use gentoo is the ability to use
7 > live ebuilds relatively easily. One has the equivalent in arch linux in
8 > the form of ${pkgname}-${vcs} aur packages but keeping them up to date
9 > is quite annoying.
10 >>
11 >> -- juippis
12 >>
13 >
14
15 What you're describing is live ebuilds, and I agree they are useful.
16 Joonas was talking about packages which have *only* live ebuilds, and no
17 other versions, and not even snapshots.
18
19 --
20 Best regards,
21 Alexey "DarthGandalf" Sokolov

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] New QA policy suggestion: Disallow "live-only" packages "Marty E. Plummer" <hanetzer@×××××××××.com>