-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/2013 01:13 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:05:29 +0200 hasufell <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> Isn't it more an indication that Gentoo needs better package >>> management support for overlays? > >> No. > > You make a persuasive argument. I realise now that the Summer of > Code projects for this were a mistake. > >
We need worse support for overlays, i.e. no. Having to use >3 overlays defeats the purpose of a QA'd tree. Everything in an (official) overlay should be in package.mask instead. The main reason it isn't is because nobody wants to use CVS. For good examples, see sunrise or gentoo-haskell. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRuK54AAoJEBxJck0inpOiHCsP/ivXsWF4GMYNkzNTCYLUmTZI hXXuF2ZEx6c1nlml/BXNtmABFcE6IO6GthLqLW7P6lmVyxy9E5jtDXD6Hht2H05K JLP57LO9dUjHZDeZeElkQDhZ1BHWFhTA0wAvzZqodGtjUiuxDFvp58E8iVvnnqw+ b852Y5bSh1hNPeb6c/P/tcRekOrz8k98LBlJny+rmw6AlRZLcieeKcTe5XPhRD6s QE79saIDThrqRn2fvkgdSMYJ0XR3FfkFWDeRopcilIJwm6+gjmkzGmXjBFkjG0g5 ImpeCtjL/0m/2gjUhKcJIYCNYxM/TD8K0MFRUpXLPX6jd76U1IL77UmTWMNz2r7m 2Rlr8gkvn9Iutlw1mhcLjYe6gaypfnDDv7rPZiJlLbSMY9XLwB3tLwatUzbEveBw Bn0AliHppphdA7cs50C7DlAw6cLTZKsdGlqTQJWaMxNHyXftYRQb65zD1AhfMawr /1XQ97cUHtozySdPMHaQVwrm0I7FxUtuV1z3x484gEgvn184u3XLnJIxRB8+ykhP vM/Az7GmGqNzDUeOFBKi1GHjQRlniMZPCOv43/QaKrN6t1Sjnrl68zuYEW5ujf/g tPUnLnVWl8vRQ6PZYE4OfipT9ovaTJFivRpXHWER6FTIIeBoypWfIYCnV5hNCOUL t6uIkp0UbYWl2RAL+ZIM =tHMl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
