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Chris Bainbridge wrote: |
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> Another thing that some people may not have considered - with many |
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> developers using various permutations of overlays, how can you |
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> guarantee that what is being checked into the main tree will build for |
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> a normal user? In order to test that, a developer would have to |
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> disable all overlays, unemerge everything provided by the overlays, |
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> and then build and test with a plain "non-overlay" gentoo. That's a |
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> lot of work; I doubt most developers are doing it. |
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You are wrong in my case. |
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I have a vanilla root, which used to be just a chroot, but now i'm |
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trying out vmware, where I test all the changes I make. |
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I think many other devs test in a similar manner (on another box, |
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chroot, ...). |
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/Ehmsen |
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