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Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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>> Since when was overlays.gentoo.org supposed to even be a service to our |
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>> users? As I understand it, the goal was to ease development, not to |
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>> provide an easy method for half-working ebuilds to make it to our user's |
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>> machines. |
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> Our users are our biggest base of testers, and the point of overlays is |
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> to develop and test, so of course one of the goals is to get overlays |
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> onto users' (testers') machines. Making testing as easy as possible is |
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> important. But it should be clear that it is testing, and if the apps |
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> were ready for the real Portage tree, they'd be in it. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Donnie |
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That's already being done very well with per-team overlays. |
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