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From: Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-science] Merging alternative.eclass ecosystem into main repo(Was: Git reorganisation)
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 06:53:13
Message-Id: 87a85n6i3y.fsf_-_@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] Git reorganisation by David Seifert
1 Hi,
2
3 David Seifert <soap@g.o> writes:
4
5 > You're putting it much too lightly - in its current state, the overlay
6 > is a disaster. More often than not it contains awful ebuilds, awfully
7 > broken, and noone feels a responsibility to fix the mess. People keep
8 > adding broken ebuilds to it. So yes, people should stop adding broken
9 > stuff to it, and more importantly, should rather send in high-quality
10 > stuff directly to the main tree instead of using the overlay as a
11 > quasi-permanent dumping ground.
12
13 One pain in migrating ebuild to the main repo is that the
14 alternative.eclass ecosystem. Is there a plan to merge it? I am
15 wondering what is the blocking issue remaining.
16
17 Yours,
18 Benda

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