Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree

[Brian Dolbec]

On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 00:35 +0200, hasufell wrote:
> On 07/22/2013 12:33 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Dnia 2013-07-22, o godz. 00:16:31 hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
> > napisał(a):
> >
> >> On 07/22/2013 12:07 AM, Duncan wrote:
> >>> hasufell posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:22:24 +0200 as
> >>> excerpted:
> >>>
> >>>> solution: Treeclean it and maintain it in an overlay (maybe
> >>>> science-overlay). That's exactly what overlays are for...
> >>>> experimental stuff.
> >>>
> >>> What's the pros/cons of overlay vs. in-tree-but-masked for
> >>> something like this?  In-tree-but-masked is at least available
> >>> for those who want it, without having to load an overlay, but I
> >>> don't see that discussed at all, here.
> >>>
> >>
> >> cons: - users have to run "layman -a foo" ...I hope they will
> >> manage (and the masking reason will be updated to explain where
> >> to look for googleearth ebuilds)
> >
> > Then to get *a single package* they start using the whole overlay.
> > If it's a sane overlay, fine. But some overlays really replace a
> > lot of stuff silently and trigger failures we didn't even imagine
> > before.
> >
>
> No.
>
> I'd either use a separate single-purpose overlay or add it to
> science-overlay.


If it's a separate overlay, then googleearth overlay in gentoo's github
account for easy access for users, both to get and contribute.