On 6/9/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Firstly, I think it is very clear that anything in sunrise is experimental or not supported in the main gentoo tree. That's fine! I don't think any user who goes through the trouble to set up an overlay would miss that point. You can't go to o.g.o and not see the disclaimers. And, anyone who goes through the trouble to svn the overlay, edit make.conf, etc., would not be an ignorant newbie (no disrespect to newbies intended). Anyone who fetches the sunrise overlay would know exactly what he/she intends to do and why. Much different than emerge --sync with keyword x86.
Recently on -user there was someone who couldn't build any gnome apps, because they had an obsolete gnome2.eclass in their overlay. This user certainly didn't know enough about portage or ebuilds to be using an overlay like that. Besides, users frequently do imprudent things to their systems. They will break their systems by unmasking p.masked stuff (I've done this, so I am in this group), add dangerous CFLAGS based on random forum or wiki pages, and use ~arch packages and then rant about any bugs that show up. As you've already said, having it on a *.gentoo.org domain gives some people a higher level of comfort with it, regardless of any dislaimers. I have no idea what the quality of the sunrise overlay will be, but it seems likely to be worse than the currently p.masked stuff. If getting sunrise is easy enough, and a substantial number of users start using it, supporting those users could become very difficult. -Richard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
