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On 12:01 Tue 16 Oct , Andrey G. Grozin wrote: |
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> The original cryos' idea when he created the science overlay was a place to |
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> develop ebuilds until they become mature enough to be moved to the main |
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> tree (I can dig his original post about this subject). He suggested that |
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> ebuilds whould, in most cases, be moved to the main tree quickly enough. |
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OK, sure, but historic reasons are not future reasons. If things should |
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change, this is not a reason to hold it back. |
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> Gentoo users are not instructed to use overlays. Most of them just don't |
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> know about them. Hunting for an interesting package in many tens of |
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> overlays present at overlays.gentoo.org is not easy. |
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There is http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml -- for |
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some reason, it doesn't appear to be linked from the main docs section. |
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I just asked in #gentoo-doc about this. |
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I agree that hunting could be difficult, but most of the project (rather |
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than developer-owned) overlays are topical by definition. If I'm looking |
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for a scientific application, it shouldn't take a leap of logic to try |
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the science overlay. Also, eix (a searching tool) includes a searchable |
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package cache of every overlay, generated daily. |
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> 1. Inform users *prominently* that some interesting packages don't live in |
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> the main portage tree (currently, not many users know this). |
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Yep. |
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> Who will decide which packages are first-class citizens and which are not? |
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> What are the criteria? |
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I suggested a few. |
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- Is a developer willing to commit to maintaining it? |
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- Is it expected to be fairly popular, or is it extremely specific? |
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- (for apps already in the tree) Is it unmaintained? Should it be |
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moved to an overlay? |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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