Unger Richard wrote: > Hi! > > Rather than pull directly from git, wouldn't it be better to create a gentoo > overlay, using the new Layman system? > > As I understand it the overlay could be hosted at gentoo. > > The sources from GIT can be collected into the overlay, removing the problem > of pulling them directly from GIT. > > The overlay can include references to additional software in matching > versions like GTK, Cairo, etc... > > That's my 2c... > > Richie
Actually, I was about to propose to host an overlay in the version control system itself (just the ebuilds, wether they depend on other additional software external to DirectFB.org or not, they would just link to them by dependency in Gentoo), and some of them would pull the released tarballs, some of them "head", actually I don't see what's wrong with pulling directly from the version control system itself. It just eases installing latest sources for gentoo users which really need to try the latest, for testing new features discussed on the ML, etc. The overlay can either be "registered" in the official gentoo overlay list, or an overlay definition file to be downloaded and just additionally pointed at in /etc/layman/layman.cfg could be provided. From the projects I know, something like this (the additional overlay definition file) is how it's done at http://www.freevo.org or http://www.linkstationwiki.net (at least the Genlink for the Linkstation Pro, for which I built Gentoo as an alternative firmware). My 2 cents, as well :) Of course, I don't insist on any solution, we should discuss this... Lucian _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
