On 15 February 2013 00:19, Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote: > On 15/02/2013 01:15, Rich Freeman wrote: >> How? We don't support overlays in the main tree. I could see a >> package maintainer being nice if pinged by an overlay maintainer and >> delaying some change for a short time to let an overlay be updated, >> but issues that impact overlays should not be considered blockers on >> closing bugs on the main tree. > > The problem is when you have to triple-check that the user hasn't > enabled some random fucked up overlay and you have to guess whether that > might be the cause of the problem. Yes it happens, not so rarely. >
That's not a good argument. You can't stop people from using whatever external sources they want. But you can easily spot what they use from a simple eix -e <broken-package> or emerge --info and close the bug as INVALID in the blink of an eye -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
