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* Tobias Klausmann <klausman@××××××××××××.de> schrieb: |
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hi, |
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(I'm trying to splitt off sevaral sub-topics to get them |
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more clear ...) |
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> I initially provided an ebuild for a package I maintain. I also |
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> provide a new ebuild for every new version. For this, proxy |
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> maintainership is the thing to do, IMO. |
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hmm, I'm just thinking about splitting the tree into separate |
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(larger) parts, actually: move out certain subtrees to an overlay. |
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For example: KDE. |
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Many people/systems won't ever use it (ie. have no X at all). |
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Others are very interested in it. |
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If we had this whole subtree in an overlay, it would make the main |
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tree much, much smaller, so easier to maintain and save load from |
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the mirrors. |
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But this only works good, if its actually an *subtree*, and *not* |
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overriding any packages from the main tree. Otherwise we soon get |
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ugly conflicts and evrything goes to hell. |
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The same could happen for other parts of the tree, ie. web servers. |
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Maybe this splitting could be done on similar boundaries as some |
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distros (or commercial OS vendors) have their different "editions". |
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So maybe "Gentoo KDesktop edition" would be Gentoo base plus |
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Xorg+KDE overlays ;-) |
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Of course this has to be done *very* careful, but IMHO it can |
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help a lot. |
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... just my 0.02 EUR |
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cu |
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Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
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Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: |
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Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: |
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http://patches.metux.de/ |
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