Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] RFC: Graveyard project

[Diego Elio Pettenò]

On 15/02/2013 01:15, Rich Freeman wrote:
> How?  We don't support overlays in the main tree.  I could see a
> package maintainer being nice if pinged by an overlay maintainer and
> delaying some change for a short time to let an overlay be updated,
> but issues that impact overlays should not be considered blockers on
> closing bugs on the main tree.

The problem is when you have to triple-check that the user hasn't
enabled some random fucked up overlay and you have to guess whether that
might be the cause of the problem. Yes it happens, not so rarely.

> If there is something wrong with the proaudio overlay just don't use
> it.  The same would apply to sunset.

I don't use it; people still report bugs with it.

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