On 08/09/2013 07:37 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:31:22 +0800 > Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Somehow I get really confused by this selective perception (anyone >> remembering the KDE overlay getting paludised and the fallout from >> that?) > > That's a very selective perception there. If you mean the fully > documented kdebuild-1 EAPI, ... which was disallowed from being used in-tree, which most users could not use without breaking their current setup ...
It lead to a fork of the overlay which in a short time absorbed almost all users, which should tell you how popular the decision of "lol don't portage" was. The difference now is that forking Gnome is not a viable option > whose features are mostly in EAPI 5 now, > then I remember Gentoo getting a lot of valuable experience that was > used to decide how to improve the package format. > And lots of good policies like "all ebuilds in-tree must work with portage", or "all ebuilds in tree must use approved EAPIs" (hello pro-gress overlay ;) )
