Dnia 2013-07-22, o godz. 00:16:31
hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):

> 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.
> > 
> 
> 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)

Then to get *a single package* they start using the whole overlay. If
it's a sane overlay, fine. But some overlays really replace a lot of
stuff silently and trigger failures we didn't even imagine before.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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