Just a few opinions from the outside looking in... On Thursday 13 October 2005 12:25 pm, Stefan Jones wrote: > I am just wondering about people's option about making a new category, > called something like dev-xmingw or similar.
Wouldn't set a precident for dev-gcc, dev-icc, dev-[enter alternate toolchain here]? > The other option is to make an external non-official tree that people > could use as an overlay. Personally I don't like that idea either. To me, external overlays are 'tainted' because they are not blessed enough to be part of the default gentoo tree. I therefore don't trust them and don't use them. Obviously that means I don't get the latest cutting edge stuff, but to have a stable gentoo environment I'm willing to make that sacrafice. Relegating these mingw stuff to an external overlay would carry the same 'taint' with it. And the fact that external non-official overlays are not really given much representation in the doco, most users looking for something like this would not have any idea that the external overlay existed and they could get the packages they're looking for from there. Like I said, just comments from an outsider... -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
