Re: TLDR: rant in support of overlays (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Over-reliance of Gentoo projects on overlays)

2013-06-13 Thread yac
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:31:57 -0700 Greg Turner wrote: > Anyhow, isn't the gentoo-x86 tree already plenty big enough, without > every single overlay's ebuilds and eclasses in there too? Personally, > I'm inclined to wish it was smaller, even if that meant more stuff was > pushed into overlays Ac

Re: TLDR: rant in support of overlays (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Over-reliance of Gentoo projects on overlays)

2013-06-12 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/12/2013 06:31 PM, Greg Turner wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Michael Orlitzky > wrote: >> On 06/12/2013 01:13 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:05:29 +0200 hasufell >>> wrote: > Isn't it more an indication that Gentoo needs better package > managemen

TLDR: rant in support of overlays (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Over-reliance of Gentoo projects on overlays)

2013-06-12 Thread Greg Turner
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 06/12/2013 01:13 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:05:29 +0200 hasufell >> wrote: Isn't it more an indication that Gentoo needs better package management support for overlays? >> >>> No. >> > > We need wor