On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
wrote:
> One of the reasons we had to split the work in the 2 overlays was to
> move the live ebuilds to the experimental overlay so that "casual users"
> wouldn't be affected by them.
if they're properly masked/keyworded why would 'casua
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Wulf C. Krueger wrote:
> On Monday, 02. March 2009 10:29:59 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
>> Also, having separate overlays would allow one to do experimental stuff
>> with eclasses in the experimental overlay without affecting users of the
>> base
Caleb Cushing wrote:
>> Are we to say that we shouldn't allow tools to have support for this. I
>> think that it is a nature progression that if we are to allow overlays to
>> extend the portage tree that we should allow overlays to extend other
>> overlays.
>
> I probably shouldn't butt in...
>
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Caleb Cushing wrote:
>> Are we to say that we shouldn't allow tools to have support for this. I
>> think that it is a nature progression that if we are to allow overlays to
>> extend the portage tree that we should allow overlays to extend other
>> o
> Are we to say that we shouldn't allow tools to have support for this. I
> think that it is a nature progression that if we are to allow overlays to
> extend the portage tree that we should allow overlays to extend other
> overlays.
I probably shouldn't butt in...
first, no I don't want you to
On Monday, 02. March 2009 10:29:59 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> Also, having separate overlays would allow one to do experimental stuff
> with eclasses in the experimental overlay without affecting users of the
> base overlay. Until we get versioned eclasses, I don't see how one can
> do tha
Alistair Bush schrieb:
> Asking non-dev contributors to handle package.mask's would be a "less
> than ideal". Resulting in "interesting breakages". Currently by adding
> java-experimental ( which might I add isn't available thru layman ) you
> are accepting that risk.
>
> At least java and kde ha
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Alistair Bush wrote:
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>
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> On 19:18 Mon 02 Mar , Alistair Bush wrote:
>>> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>>
>> Could you explain what you see as the important difference that makes
>> package.mask bad and a separate overlay good
Donnie Berkholz wrote:
On 19:18 Mon 02 Mar , Alistair Bush wrote:
Donnie Berkholz wrote:
Could you explain what you see as the important difference that makes
package.mask bad and a separate overlay good?
Contributors sometimes have difficulty following standards (hell even
dev's d
On 19:18 Mon 02 Mar , Alistair Bush wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> Combine this with package.mask. To me, experimental means masked.
>
> Experimental within java means a lot of things, or at least it should.
> Anything from user contributed and non-dev qa'd to packages with bundled
> ja
Donnie Berkholz wrote:
On 11:59 Sun 25 Jan , Alistair Bush wrote:
Possible Solution:
Merging java-overlay and java-experimental. From my perspective this
isn't a good one as we loss most of the benefits of java-experimental.
Combine this with package.mask. To me, experimental means mas
On 11:59 Sun 25 Jan , Alistair Bush wrote:
> Possible Solution:
>
> Merging java-overlay and java-experimental. From my perspective this
> isn't a good one as we loss most of the benefits of java-experimental.
Combine this with package.mask. To me, experimental means masked.
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Thanks,
Don
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Alistair Bush wrote:
> Here is an issue that is currently being faced by the java project that
> I would like to bring to the attention of everyone. I have already
> discussed this will devs from all pm's.
>
> Intro:
>
> Within the java project we h
Here is an issue that is currently being faced by the java project that
I would like to bring to the attention of everyone. I have already
discussed this will devs from all pm's.
Intro:
Within the java project we have 2 overlays. java-overlay and
java-experimental. java-overlay is mean't to be
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