On 23/03/06, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 14:41 +0000, Stuart Herbert wrote: > > Your nightmare scenario seems unavoidable. Enabling per-overlay bug > > tracking doesn't stop users posting bugs in bugzilla. It just causes > > confusion for users, because they're not sure where to go. Normally, > > it's not a problem - because the overlay contributors are normally the > > owners of the real package. > > No, it does not stop them, but it sure will curb the number of users > posting their bugs to the wrong place. Remember that only more advanced > users are the ones using overlays. We won't have Joe Sixpack using an > overlay. Instead it'll be Bob Developer-to-be.
If the software a user wants is in an overlay, then the user will be forced to install the overlay. Another thing that some people may not have considered - with many developers using various permutations of overlays, how can you guarantee that what is being checked into the main tree will build for a normal user? In order to test that, a developer would have to disable all overlays, unemerge everything provided by the overlays, and then build and test with a plain "non-overlay" gentoo. That's a lot of work; I doubt most developers are doing it. There is a discussion on the forums at the moment along a similar topic http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-443469.html - the vote seems to indicate 58% of users are "not really happy with the way the portage tree is handled". -- [email protected] mailing list
