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On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:59:35AM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:32:49 +0200 |
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> Alexandre Buisse <nattfodd@g.o> wrote: |
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> [snip] |
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> > Please criticize this with everything constructive you > can think of. |
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> This idea of putting almost everything into its own repo/overlay will IMO end up in the same mess that several other distros have with tons of 3rd party repos that don't play nice with each other. In case you don't know, the "one stop" philosophy with one central repo is what attracts a lot of people to Gentoo. |
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I think a lot of the problems with those other distributions and their 3rd party |
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repositories is related to the fact that they are binary-based distributions and |
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we are not. |
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Having an ebuild that |
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DEPENDS on such and such >= than a certain version and having ebuilds named after |
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the projects they represent. well... |
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Brandon |
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Brandon Edens brandon@××××××.edu |
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http://www.brandonedens.org |
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