-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: | On Sunday 11 December 2005 22:27, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |>How do you plan to keep this in sync with changes in the regular tree? |>How is our own solution superior to getting together with gentopia or |>something similar that already exists? |> | | Like I said anything that gets moved into portage will be deleted from the | overlay. I could probably write a script to check for conflicts but I didn't | envisage this being a major problem. I don't think it is necessarily superior | to gentopia or the php overlay - what would be the advantage of getting | together with them?
No need to maintain duplicate infrastructures. |>OK, so this overlay is only for new packages, and not for changes to |>existing ones? |> | | Originally it was intended for new ebuilds, alphas, betas (e.g. the grace | betas) and experimental stuff. I thought it would be a good place to try | things out, and once they were working to put into portage. Also as a good | place to help train new developers that come to the herd and foster a greater | range of scientific applications in Gentoo. OK. I can definitely see training. Some people do prefer overlays for ebuilds in progress, but I prefer -* keywords and keeping them in the tree so all the history stays in the same place. In the same vein, I use package.mask for beta's rather than a separate overlay. Thanks, Donnie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDnLpuXVaO67S1rtsRAoolAJ49GaEGC6Odmh5c4bocCZoxmhX5tQCeOCqd bM5aybWXVCyVfva/QJ3cnIQ= =wz7c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
