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On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:47:27 -0400, Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> |
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> Jesús Guerrero wrote: |
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>> Most Gentoo users will have no problem to use overlays as they need |
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>> them. If we had more developers we could as maintain more packages, |
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>> as simple as that. |
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> I actually tend to agree with this position, |
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It's not something to agree or disagree. There aren't developers to |
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maintain |
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all the software under the sun, period. |
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> however to use overlays as |
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> a valid solution for end-users we need to do more to support them. |
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Yeah, devs for that as well. |
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> Right now it is at least a little painful to get set up with an overlay. |
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No, it's a matter of using layman -a <whatever> |
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> There also isn't really any official place to vet overlays, and there |
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> isn't any official source for overlays that aren't maintained by gentoo. |
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> Sure, overlays.g.o has tons of overlays - but which ones are |
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> mostly-stable, and which ones are intended to break systems? What is |
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> the QA policy for each overlay? If I'm an end-user not interested in |
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> breaking my system, what overlays are safe for me to use? |
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There's no policy. Just like unofficial repos for any other distro. |
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We can't control that. It's outside Gentoo. |
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While I agree that having more packages and being more up to date is |
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a good thing, I can never agree that we should sacrifice Gentoo for that. |
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You want stability for what I see on your answer, well, that's what you |
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have. I don't think we can do any more with the number of developers we |
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have right now unless we start dumping blindingly and without any check |
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every ebuild that we get across. |
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Jesús Guerrero |
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