Fabio explained the idea to me some weeks ago, but let me again confirm I agree.
(o: 2011/9/19 Sławomir Nizio <slawomir.ni...@sabayon.org>: > Speaking about git history, don't know why I didn't think of it the first > place: > it could be done this way (idea): > cp -r overlay overlay-gen > mv overlay overlay-sab > rm overlay-gen/sab-stuff > rm overlay-sab/gen-stuff > ZzZ. > >> This idea seems to be profitable for Gentoo users. I've sometime >> thought about it. >> >> Should it be done or not, let me share my thoughts of main >> disadvantages for Sabayon I can think of, for fruitful discussion. >> >> - A git repository created from scratch wouldn't have ebuilds etc. >> history (logs). But if for example the "Gentooish" overlay is made of >> current sabayon overlay from which Sabayon stuff is removed, git >> history of deleted files would be still available in it. >> I don't know if that could be made better, but if not, maybe this >> problem could be ignored (of course if answer for this proposal is >> "yes"). >> I can only think of spliting the overlay *not* into two physical git >> repositories, but into two branches. Question here: would it be a >> comfortable solution for the maintainers - hmm, it could work. But I'm >> not that sure layman-and-others support it. >> >> - It's possible some eclasses and/or virtuals would need to be shared >> and maintained simultaneously in the two overlays, but it's IMO no big >> thing. >> >> I don't know how it looks from the perspective of the infrastructure, >> so I won't say anything in this regard. >> >> On the other hand: what good could it bring to Sabayon - more fame. :) >> > >
