Apparently, though unproven, at 19:34 on Saturday 27 November 2010, sean did opine thusly:
> I thought Gentoo was supposed to be bleeding edge when it came to all > things Linux. > > Why would something like E17, (or any package,) still need to be applied > through an overlay after all this time instead of just being in portage? Becuase raster has not released anything yet. It took 9 years to release eet, now at version 1.4 It's 10 years and now finally the efl libs are nearing release, currently at -beta2. The next beta (3) is scheduled for release in December. If upstream has never released anything, how can it go into portage? > I thought building from scratch was to be the way to put a package > together based on what you want, and what is available on your sytem. > I understand that some basic needs are required to build a package, but > again, I figured working from source would make such things so much more > flexible. It's not build from scratch. It's check out from svn, hope and pray that today's commits didn't break the works, and see what you get today. That's not release. heck, you can't even write ebuilds for that and give the users some kind of reassurance about consistency. That's why it's all still in overlays. > > I am not trying to start any type of nasty discussion, it is just a > nagging question I have wondered about. > > Thanks > Sean -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
