Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Subtrees [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Martin Rud Ehmsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Martin Rud Ehmsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> I don't see how this is going to make anything easier to maintain. > > Well, it's not the overlay, but the clean subtree'ing what does > the trick. If you look at the whole de

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Subtrees [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Martin Rud Ehmsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: Hi, > I don't see how this is going to make anything easier to maintain. Well, it's not the overlay, but the clean subtree'ing what does the trick. If you look at the whole dependency graph, this subtree is an really independent part, just if it w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Subtrees [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Alec Warner
hmm, I'm just thinking about splitting the tree into separate (larger) parts, actually: move out certain subtrees to an overlay. For example: KDE. Many people/systems won't ever use it (ie. have no X at all). Others are very interested in it. If we had this whole subtree in an overlay, it wo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Subtrees [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Martin Rud Ehmsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > hmm, I'm just thinking about splitting the tree into separate > (larger) parts, actually: move out certain subtrees to an overlay. > > For example: KDE. > Many people/systems won't ever use it (ie. have no X at all). > Others

[gentoo-dev] Portage Subtrees [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Tobias Klausmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: hi, (I'm trying to splitt off sevaral sub-topics to get them more clear ...) > I initially provided an ebuild for a package I maintain. I also > provide a new ebuild for every new version. For this, proxy > maintainership is the thing to do, IMO.