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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Gentoo Recruiters need your help!
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:36:33
Message-Id: 546B91A6.3040402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Gentoo Recruiters need your help! by Jauhien Piatlicki
1 On 11/18/2014 07:33 PM, Jauhien Piatlicki wrote:
2 > On 11/18/2014 06:23 PM, hasufell wrote:
3 >> On 11/18/2014 04:19 AM, heroxbd@g.o wrote:
4 >>> Jauhien Piatlicki <jauhien@g.o> writes:
5 >>>
6 >>>> It would be probably good to have in the tree only the core components and move other stuff to the thematic overlays.
7 >>>>
8 >>>> Then we can have a clear understanding, how things should be: if
9 >>>> something is a part of the core system, it goes to the tree, if
10 >>>> something is a scientific packages, it lives in the science overlay,
11 >>>> if something is a java stuff it lives in the java overlay, etc.
12 >>>
13 >>> This is a good idea. One difficulty: how to handle inter-overlay
14 >>> dependence? Either the dependency should be expressed by overlay +
15 >>> ebuild, or the dependent ebuild should be moved into the "core overlay".
16 >>> I haven't figured out a clean solution yet.
17 >>>
18 >>
19 >> git submodules?
20 >>
21 >
22 > mmm, are you serious? )
23 >
24
25 I really have no idea. It made sense for a moment. And then that moment
26 was gone.