Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2017, 14:39:55 CET schrieb Francesco Riosa: > BTW that help a lot we, users, that want to test that package in the limbo > time upstream has done some changes and the ebuild as not caught up. > Othrewise just avoid the -9999 in tree, a lot of developer have said they > are evil in the past (right?)
Actually I'm not so convinced that -9999 live ebuilds in the tree are "evil" anymore (assuming they have no keywords). Why? Compare the git history of, say, app-office/libreoffice (with the live ebuilds in the main tree), with kde-apps/kmail (with the live ebuilds separately in the kde overlay). For LibreOffice one can easily follow not just the version bumps but also the changes to the live ebuilds, which often document why something was changed (bug number, upstream modification). For KMail the main tree mainly has "Added version" and "Removed version" commits, but if and why the ebuilds changed between versions is essentially documented in the kde overlay. -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)
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