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From: Markus Ullmann <jokey@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The KDE overlay moves forward
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:17:28
Message-Id: frroqv$qeq$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The KDE overlay moves forward by Richard Freeman
1 Richard Freeman schrieb:
2
3 > The downside might be division of effort and less unification
4 > (many packages could end up having mutally-exclusive requirements such
5 > as specific package managers that implement particular EAPIs, etc).
6
7 Plus you have no central place to report bugs and no stable
8 infrastructure to maintain stuff.
9 From my POV, one of our strengths over other distributions is that we
10 can provide it all with one repository in one central place and don't
11 have issues with a sources.list longer than any make.conf you can come
12 up with.
13
14 Overlays are there (even though they are hacks) for development or other
15 packages that don't find a maintainer for some reason; supporting
16 completely different repos like CPAN and whatnot is desirable as you
17 strip packaging workload.
18 But other than that I think we should keep the one big repo strategy. If
19 others feel different, well they can start right now, no technical
20 reason stops people from doing so anyway.
21
22 Greetz
23 -Jokey

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