-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 14/06/16 08:48, Daniel Campbell wrote: > What sort of modularization are you talking about? The cheap answer is "as much as possible.
> Would we suggest something like GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Mate, Cinnamon, > et al getting their own overlays? dev-lang/foo getting its own > overlay, etc? Yes. Although I would not want to impose my thoughts too much in this regard, as I think we have a lot of capable devs, who are hopefully more fit for this task than I am. > To some degree, that will simplify some people's trees and quicken > emerge, but then it just pushes maintainance to a part that most > users don't really mess with much (repos.conf) I don't know what maintenance you are speaking about. > You can achieve mostly the same end via your own git repo at > /usr/local/ and pulling overlays in via either layman or git > submodules, for overlays that aren't already in layman. The repository isn't hosted by us along with everybody else's repository, so there is no community element. And the Gentoo tree isn't modular today. So I completely fail to see how that would be "mostly the same". > zugaina and layman are great tools that could use a bit more > polish, and could be either adopted or assisted as an official part > of the handbook. That would be great. > There's no guarantee on their quality, and if an overlay becomes > popular then there may be pressure put on the Gentoo tree to adopt > whatever the popular overlay has. This could be detrimental *or* > beneficial, depending on what the changes are. I assume that using PPAs is at your own risk, so this is not a real problem. Gentoo would have a curated and reviewed set of repositories, venturing outside of that is clearly for power users. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXYQIaAAoJENQqWdRUGk8BVQQP/RmlYUCY46hslpRXC2A8W+pk OUCF4hL16pwMqfTIMOhxGvjSJ8sGSWSrHrh27YlvW5b0T1xxmH8fL5q/b9AxnnlZ g0cvbprunskuc0UK1b8H2vE0WFPXoTV5QmyKb3XZoXyW6BEPNYyal/uKAH8IxuQO 9y+bJa1TuAsaOEvIhDLDN8DCavwP+Wd306JrRm3dj708gDxr//i8aGg0WLEhKtof 1RAmqw/K12J2C/9rF/8isoE2UO8DEf/s19A4ghtrQj1zho4ZY4wUBZ/MNwHhboU8 TXPRXYVSI4n4N40hpdzVm6Mi+URiggLtYwwS8tZlaky1/1cLz7aG7INo1ECSaSOS rqllFkhgOWH+Tmxkt3OaODrAV263So7RbDlpMmjl4GJxj6dpygM5yEhAoM8ARWxg 0KE1m1XkRqZeDolJ3fKjFhVOzqMSHvbJT58PzD35AbiDXc/95kdcM+dCS/BGPqSs wSVTm7QIjsY7v5Pz6G/5kCKPi14xsTDZktSz4p/gOU53/+Tio6P+vN5ZCyFwfa43 9dkVv7QnpCJQLy8jlc07nvBB5xtEcPFe7yab/2qZdcc1LPQfRdUU8KUMzMTygNyb 1kW0aTQtKbnu2Af/JfjjVlVMN5WNBRiNVYhT430HVDRuoyShzoO6CDR+6V/AX8ze gT+8VKGb+5gU4iUyS4sz =wgyc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
