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From: "Peter Volkov (pva)" <pva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise thread -- a try of clarification
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 20:05:13
Message-Id: 1149796370.16025.21.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise thread -- a try of clarification by Henrik Brix Andersen
1 On Чтв, 2006-06-08 at 21:20 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
2 > It's not a "normal" overlay as I see it. You've promoted it to be an
3 > official overlay. The difference is huge in my opinion.
4
5 IMO such overlay should be official! Why not to keep all (partially)
6 broken ebuilds in one place? This is the same story as with German
7 gentoo forum that is outside gentoo.org and thus none of devs wanted to
8 keep eyes there, so forum became much less useful.
9
10 Another problem with BMG is that it is gnome oriented, as cleary stated
11 on About page and thus I never thought that my, fex, www-apps could be
12 there.
13
14 > > As already mentioned at 1), it is an overlay. The devs on sunrise do
15 > > keep an eye on it and all ebuilds do have to pass at least repoman and
16 > > some basic QA checks (currently done when porting them from bugs.g.o) so
17 > > that they don't do some rm -rf / thing.
18 >
19 > Will you also review the code each and every ebuild pull down over the
20 > internet?
21
22 And that is really exciting moment. :) The main difference between such
23 overlay and wiki is that reading text never does `rm -rf /`. How can one
24 stop such jokes? I think if this problem will be solved such overlay
25 should be.
26
27 Peter.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise thread -- a try of clarification Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>