On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Joost Ruis <joostr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. :) >>>
I generally support this proposal. But please understand this has the potential to involve a significant amount of manual labor, so it may take a while to make it happen. Then again, it may end up being easier.
