Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:26:50 -0500:
> Off thread topic... Start something new... and please use something else > other then xmms as an example or we're going to ignore it. I think you missed my meaning... which wasn't off thread. I simply pointed out that one reason for maintaining an "official overlay" (here for mingw) as opposed to unofficial, is the question of support. An unofficial overlay isn't supported, and can be reason for bugs being closed. It could be possible to maintain an out-of-tree-but-official overlay, for packages that were felt not to be useful to enough folks to remain in the tree, while still being useful for a large enough group of folks to remain supported. One element of that level of support would be that bugs wouldn't be closed out of hand just because a package from that overlay was mentioned, as they might be if the overlay was a random unofficial overlay some Joe Blow setup on his own. xmms was just a widely used recent example. I was NOT complaining about it, nor really was I complaining about the handling of bugs, both of which WOULD be a different topic, merely observing that such a distinction could be useful to maintain and would be one reason for maintaining an "official overlay". >From what I read on this thread, if the mingw toolchain is removed from the tree, it might well be worth keeping it (at least, if not the other packages depending on it) in just such an official overlay. I was simply pointing that out and in general approving the idea, thus it was thread topical, tho I have no dog in this fight, and personally don't care /what/ happens to it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
