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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: hasufell@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 22:33:31
Message-Id: 20130722003326.566791a1@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: remove sci-geosciences/googleearth from the tree by hasufell
1 Dnia 2013-07-22, o godz. 00:16:31
2 hasufell <hasufell@g.o> napisał(a):
3
4 > On 07/22/2013 12:07 AM, Duncan wrote:
5 > > hasufell posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:22:24 +0200 as excerpted:
6 > >
7 > >> solution: Treeclean it and maintain it in an overlay (maybe
8 > >> science-overlay). That's exactly what overlays are for... experimental
9 > >> stuff.
10 > >
11 > > What's the pros/cons of overlay vs. in-tree-but-masked for something like
12 > > this? In-tree-but-masked is at least available for those who want it,
13 > > without having to load an overlay, but I don't see that discussed at all,
14 > > here.
15 > >
16 >
17 > cons:
18 > - users have to run "layman -a foo" ...I hope they will manage (and the
19 > masking reason will be updated to explain where to look for googleearth
20 > ebuilds)
21
22 Then to get *a single package* they start using the whole overlay. If
23 it's a sane overlay, fine. But some overlays really replace a lot of
24 stuff silently and trigger failures we didn't even imagine before.
25
26 --
27 Best regards,
28 Michał Górny

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