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Just a few opinions from the outside looking in... |
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On Thursday 13 October 2005 12:25 pm, Stefan Jones wrote: |
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> I am just wondering about people's option about making a new category, |
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> called something like dev-xmingw or similar. |
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Wouldn't set a precident for dev-gcc, dev-icc, dev-[enter alternate toolchain |
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here]? |
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> The other option is to make an external non-official tree that people |
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> could use as an overlay. |
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Personally I don't like that idea either. To me, external overlays are |
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'tainted' because they are not blessed enough to be part of the default |
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gentoo tree. I therefore don't trust them and don't use them. Obviously |
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that means I don't get the latest cutting edge stuff, but to have a stable |
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gentoo environment I'm willing to make that sacrafice. |
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Relegating these mingw stuff to an external overlay would carry the same |
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'taint' with it. |
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And the fact that external non-official overlays are not really given much |
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representation in the doco, most users looking for something like this would |
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not have any idea that the external overlay existed and they could get the |
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packages they're looking for from there. |
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Like I said, just comments from an outsider... |
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