On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:57:07 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > Sounds like a perfect way to break lots and lots of systems. Those
| > policies are mostly there for good reason.
| 
| You want to apply policies on overlays? Well no - sorry, overlays are
| none of QA's or any other policy business. They are overlays, not
| official tree.  If user installs ebuilds from overlay and breaks his
| system, then well - not a Gentoo problem. Why should any policies
| apply?

It is a Gentoo problem, because Gentoo gets innundated with bogus bug
reports when users screw up their systems in weird ways and don't
realise the cause.

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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