Re: [gentoo-project] Setting a consistent vocabulary for ebuild-related stuff

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2015-04-11, o godz. 12:48:18
Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> napisał(a):

> On 04/10/2015 09:28 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hello, developers.
> >
> > Since Gentoo is quite an aging technical community, a lot of wording
> > has accumulated to describe various ebuild-related aspects, some of it
> > rather confusing and/or outdated. Therefore, I would like to suggest
> > that we establish some 'proper' vocabulary for use in official
> > documentation, and deprecate some of the outdated concepts.
>
> +1
>
>
> > - When referring to other repositories, you can call them 'third-party
> >   repositories' or alike. No point in calling them 'overlays' since
> >   they are not laid over anything anymore.
> >
>
> This is probably going to be the most controversial thing. Most overlays
> are still overlaid on something (masters=foo in layout.conf), but it's
> not a big deal. Calling them all repos or ebuild repos is actually
> simpler, but everyone is so used to calling them overlays it might take
> a while.

No, they're really not. They inherit various stuff from masters but not
really the logic you would expect from 'overlay'.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny