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On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:09:04 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 16:23 -0400, Peter wrote: |
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>> I did not read anything that implied o.g.o would bypass anything other |
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>> than a lengthy wait in bugzilla land. Other distros have their |
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>> experimental/testing branches, why can't gentoo? |
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> *cough* ~arch *cough* |
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> What everybody seems to miss is that having the ebuild in the overlay |
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> doesn't "bypass" any sort of wait. It still is not in the tree. It is |
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> still "unsupported". Having a couple developers do a 30 second check |
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> over an ebuild does not instantly make it good quality. |
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You're right. However it allows certain ebuilds to get published long |
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before they would (if ever) waiting in bugzilla maintainer-wanted. Unless |
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I am totally naive or utopian or foolish (or all of the above), what is |
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wrong for having an overlay for orphaned or ebuilds that will never be |
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supported. Things not being in the tree is the whole purpose of the |
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overlay as I understand it. Some things should not be in the tree, some |
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things should. However, for many different reasons, some things that |
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should be in the tree just don't get there. |
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Quality is subjective. I could write a perfect ebuild for foo.bar, but the |
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program could suck. Or, someone could write a piss poor ebuild for "best |
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program ever" and q/a would slam it rightfully so. Such an ebuild would |
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likely not get onto overlay either. But for those motivated enough to want |
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to push an ebuild, the o.g.o provides such an outlet. |
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And, for me again as a user, using a gentoo-hosted overlay is preferable |
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to a third party repository. This is a personal bias on my part -- and |
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maybe unwarranted. |
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Warn users that ebuild in o.g.o come with no assurances whatsoever, and |
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let the market decide if this is a source worthy of use! |
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Peter |
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