Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Official overlay support

2006-03-25 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 23 March 2006 22:49, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Duncan wrote: > > I believe that's a fair summation of the arguments. My personal opinion, > > for whatever it's worth as a user on the dev list, is that the CC point > > is a valid one, the CC list should be a pretty decent measure of inte

[gentoo-dev] Re: Official overlay support

2006-03-24 Thread Duncan
Chris Gianelloni posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:18:48 -0500: > On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 09:47 -0500, Aron Griffis wrote: >> Chris Gianelloni wrote: [Fri Mar 24 2006, 08:55:30AM EST] >> > As I've said, my only request is a single policy that before an overlay >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Official overlay support

2006-03-23 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Duncan wrote: > I believe that's a fair summation of the arguments. My personal opinion, > for whatever it's worth as a user on the dev list, is that the CC point is > a valid one, the CC list should be a pretty decent measure of interest -- > I know it has certainly proven so on some of the bugs

[gentoo-dev] Re: Official overlay support

2006-03-23 Thread Duncan
Chris Bainbridge posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:55:15 +: >> No. It indicates nothing except that 58% of the 80 people who filled >> out the poll are "not really happy with the way the portage tree is >> handled" which by my counts, isn't even a drop in th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Official overlay support

2006-03-23 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Thursday 23 March 2006 20:43, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On 23/03/06, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Using a remote overlays is rather simple, just do "emerge layman". > > Read the einfo and then "man layman". > > It works flawlessly, just tested this with one remote overlay.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Official overlay support

2006-03-23 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 23/03/06, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Using a remote overlays is rather simple, just do "emerge layman". > Read the einfo and then "man layman". > It works flawlessly, just tested this with one remote overlay. > Beside that "man layman" explains pretty much of it's innerwork.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Official overlay support

2006-03-23 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Thursday 23 March 2006 19:16, Duncan wrote: > Chris Bainbridge posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > excerpted below, on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:47:13 +: > > Adding the ebuilds to overlays is one option, but > > then other users will be expected to find an overlay with their > > package in, and then

[gentoo-dev] Re: Official overlay support

2006-03-23 Thread Duncan
Chris Bainbridge posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:47:13 +: > Adding the ebuilds to overlays is one option, but > then other users will be expected to find an overlay with their > package in, and then add it to make.conf. ... This hints at something I wasn'