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On 13:04 Tue 16 Oct , Jukka Ruohonen wrote: |
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> Somehow, I feel, personally, that the sci-packages should constitute |
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> an exception from the general rules regarding overlays. I mean that |
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> when a person chooses to use something from, say, Xfce overlay, the |
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> use of an overlay is rather natural and pleasant, but when a person is |
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> "forced" to use an overlay in order to write a Ph.D thesis, the use of |
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> an overlay can be far from pleasant. In my opinion overlays can not |
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> escape additional concerns regarding quality and trust, and these |
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> concerns are much more strongly felt when we are dealing with |
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> scientific packages. Again the keyword may just be the perception. |
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"keyword" is the key word. If we were to do this, we'd have to manage |
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the keywords and masking more carefully (or at all!) in the overlays. |
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That gives a better indication of quality than the arbitrary assumption |
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of "portage tree good, overlay bad" that we have now. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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