Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-13 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Richard Freeman wrote: > Personally, I like the overlay idea, but right now it just isn't > necessary. In theory proxy maintainers work almost as well, and we're > not really making heavy use of this model right now. I disagree about this. One of the reasons my overlay is fun to me is because I

Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-13 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:47:27 -0400, Richard Freeman >> Right now it is at least a little painful to get set up with an overlay. > > No, it's a matter of using layman -a I think Richard was including the manual setup required to use layman and the procedure required to ad

Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-13 Thread Richard Freeman
Jesús Guerrero wrote: Yeah, devs for that as well. Yup - I think we're actually on the same page. Ultimately quality matters more than quantity and everybody does what they can given the resources we have. Right now it is at least a little painful to get set up with an overlay. No, it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-13 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:47:27 -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: > Jesús Guerrero wrote: >> >> Most Gentoo users will have no problem to use overlays as they need >> them. If we had more developers we could as maintain more packages, >> as simple as that. >> > > I actually tend to agree with this pos

Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-13 Thread Richard Freeman
Jesús Guerrero wrote: Most Gentoo users will have no problem to use overlays as they need them. If we had more developers we could as maintain more packages, as simple as that. I actually tend to agree with this position, however to use overlays as a valid solution for end-users we need to d

Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-13 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:02:44 +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Hello there! > > > Among other information the Gentoo page at DistroWatch [1] displays a > table on about 200 selected packages [2] and how up to date Gentoo is > per package. I assume that DistroWatch is still one of the first plac

Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-12 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: >> koffice (2.0.2) 1.6.3 > > There has been koffice-meta-2.0.2 for a while. Good catch, thank you! Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-12 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Aaron Bauman wrote: > Sebastian, > I definitely admire your point and know that through your tracking and > Google > SoC project you have good visibility on this I do however have to disagree. > As much as I enjoy the open source community and admire the products they put > out I do beli

Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-12 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Hello there! > > > Among other information the Gentoo page at DistroWatch [1] displays a > table on about 200 selected packages [2] and how up to date Gentoo is > per package. I assume that DistroWatch is still one of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-11 Thread Aaron Bauman
Sebastian, I definitely admire your point and know that through your tracking and Google SoC project you have good visibility on this I do however have to disagree. As much as I enjoy the open source community and admire the products they put out I do believe Gentoo has the right appro

[gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-11 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello there! Among other information the Gentoo page at DistroWatch [1] displays a table on about 200 selected packages [2] and how up to date Gentoo is per package. I assume that DistroWatch is still one of the first places people go to get a feeling for a Distro they heard about, besides Wikpe