On 07/22/2013 12:07 AM, Duncan wrote: > hasufell posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:22:24 +0200 as excerpted: > >> solution: Treeclean it and maintain it in an overlay (maybe >> science-overlay). That's exactly what overlays are for... experimental >> stuff. > > What's the pros/cons of overlay vs. in-tree-but-masked for something like > this? In-tree-but-masked is at least available for those who want it, > without having to load an overlay, but I don't see that discussed at all, > here. >
pros: - consistency of tree quality - less user confusion (the checksum failures alone get us a lot of bugs every release without people realizing what it means...) and people expect packages to work in the tree - less bugs no one can do anything about - easier contribution of users in an overlay, testing of hacks or other stuff to make it work - making clear that gentoo does not support software with such low QA - making clear that this software is experimental cons: - users have to run "layman -a foo" ...I hope they will manage (and the masking reason will be updated to explain where to look for googleearth ebuilds)
