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On 07/22/2013 12:07 AM, Duncan wrote: |
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> hasufell posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:22:24 +0200 as excerpted: |
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>> solution: Treeclean it and maintain it in an overlay (maybe |
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>> science-overlay). That's exactly what overlays are for... experimental |
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>> stuff. |
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> What's the pros/cons of overlay vs. in-tree-but-masked for something like |
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> this? In-tree-but-masked is at least available for those who want it, |
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> without having to load an overlay, but I don't see that discussed at all, |
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> here. |
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pros: |
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- consistency of tree quality |
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- less user confusion (the checksum failures alone get us a lot of bugs |
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every release without people realizing what it means...) and people |
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expect packages to work in the tree |
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- less bugs no one can do anything about |
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- easier contribution of users in an overlay, testing of hacks or other |
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stuff to make it work |
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- making clear that gentoo does not support software with such low QA |
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- making clear that this software is experimental |
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cons: |
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- users have to run "layman -a foo" ...I hope they will manage (and the |
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masking reason will be updated to explain where to look for googleearth |
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ebuilds) |
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