On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Sławomir Nizio <[email protected]> wrote: >> hello, >> >> some time ago I provided by means of bugzilla two ebuilds for the >> latest versions of nvidia-cuda-sdk and nvidia-cuda-tooklit >> (https://bugs.sabayon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3371 and >> https://bugs.sabayon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3372). >> I didn't get any feedback so I'm wondering if I did something wrong >> submitting them there: is anyone here interested in reviewing them and >> possibly willing to add them to the main repository? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Pierangelo Terzulli >> > > Hi, > > Thanks for your submission. However, Sabayon uses ebuilds from Gentoo > for both nvidia-cuda packages and usually if an ebuild isn't maintained > in one of Sabayon overlays already, a version bump is made only when Gentoo > makes it. > > More ebuilds forked from Gentoo means more maintenance load on the small > team; also a Gentoo developer who maintains the package usually knows it > better so he's able to do the work in a proper way, and so on. (I don't > say your work isn't OK - I haven't checked it much, and also I cannot test > it on my hardware - I'm just speaking in general.) > > It can be bumped if there's an extra reason behind it or if someone > from the team wants to take care of it. Your bug report is fine. > > Regards >
I'm sort of in the same boat. They look like interesting packages. But I'm always reluctant to pick up packages when I'm probably not set up to test them.
