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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: michael@××××××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Over-reliance of Gentoo projects on overlays
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:44:07
Message-Id: 20130613074452.499bde8b@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Over-reliance of Gentoo projects on overlays by Michael Orlitzky
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4 Dnia 2013-06-12, o godz. 13:23:04
5 Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com> napisał(a):
6
7 > We need worse support for overlays, i.e. no. Having to use >3 overlays
8 > defeats the purpose of a QA'd tree. Everything in an (official)
9 > overlay should be in package.mask instead. The main reason it isn't is
10 > because nobody wants to use CVS. For good examples, see sunrise or
11 > gentoo-haskell.
12
13 Sunrise is not that good example. I liked to use it as an example but
14 over time you start to see how degenerated it becomes. It seems that
15 the bond between people is pretty poor there, and many of the packages
16 lack proper maintenance.
17
18 Some of them simply don't build at all and wait for a random Sunrise
19 user to fix them. Then they lay unmaintained once again, and the story
20 repeats.
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22 - --
23 Best regards,
24 Michał Górny
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Over-reliance of Gentoo projects on overlays "René Neumann" <lists@××××××.eu>