On Friday 24 March 2006 01:54, Thomas Cort wrote: > > Thoughts on ideas on this somewhat more focussed idea? ( or at least > > I think it's more focused :P ) > > Will there be restrictions on what can go into these overlays? There > are some ebuilds that aren't allowed in the main portage tree. One > example is winex-cvs (see > app-emulation/winex-cvs/winex-cvs-3000.ebuild for details). Another > example... an overlay dev could take an existing ebuild that has > RESTRICT="fetch" and modify it to fetch the package directly without > user interaction.
Things that are not suited for public consumption should not be made public in the first place. This is one reason that I don't think that users should be given the opportunity to create their own gentoo-hosed overlays. I believe that developers could be trusted though to do things properly. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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