On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 22:58:03 +0100 "Andreas K. Huettel" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2017, 14:39:55 CET schrieb Francesco Riosa: > > > BTW that help a lot we, users, that want to test that package in > > the limbo time upstream has done some changes and the ebuild as not > > caught up. Othrewise just avoid the -9999 in tree, a lot of > > developer have said they are evil in the past (right?) > > Actually I'm not so convinced that -9999 live ebuilds in the tree are > "evil" anymore (assuming they have no keywords). > > Why? > > Compare the git history of, say, app-office/libreoffice (with the > live ebuilds in the main tree), with kde-apps/kmail (with the live > ebuilds separately in the kde overlay). Yeah there is that, and it is also much simpler to maintain a live ebuild than to rewrite and check 10 new configure options at each major version. This assumes the maintainer is using the live ebuild quite seriously though :)
