On 15/12/2022 20.22, Florian Schmaus wrote:
As everyone knows, there is nothing better than to change the workflow
that has served you well over multiple years. But apparently the
PORTDIR_OVERLAY approach works well for others, so I am confident that I
(and others) will be able to make the transition with a minimal amount
of ranting. ;)
As it was pointed out that some consider my wording here inappropriate
and/or rude, I want to apologize to everyone who was offended by the
prior paragraph. I had
https://xkcd.com/1172/
in mind when writing it.
I was also criticized for not providing a rationale for the behavior
change in portage. The motivation is driven by the noble goal to make
portage more user friendly and robust. Which I fully support. Just like
I support shallow clones per default. I just believe portage should do a
better job figuring out if it potentially messes with a "user-owned"
repository and adjust its behavior accordingly. In a similar spirit I
submitted https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/960
- Flow
