On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:59:35AM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:32:49 +0200 > Alexandre Buisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > Please criticize this with everything constructive you > can think of. > > This idea of putting almost everything into its own repo/overlay will IMO end > up in the same mess that several other distros have with tons of 3rd party > repos that don't play nice with each other. In case you don't know, the "one > stop" philosophy with one central repo is what attracts a lot of people to > Gentoo.
I think a lot of the problems with those other distributions and their 3rd party repositories is related to the fact that they are binary-based distributions and we are not. Having an ebuild that DEPENDS on such and such >= than a certain version and having ebuilds named after the projects they represent. well... Brandon -- Brandon Edens [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.brandonedens.org key 0x55438F48
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