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).
Interesting comments, and I cannot blame them too much. > 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. Yes, this one is a good example. So, in order not to be utterly responsible for distributing such things as *semi-offcial* gentoo work, I'd suggest just providing a bit easier way to use external overlays than the current one (which is easy enough once you set it up, but generally hard for n00bs). I have my own overlay for quite some time and it had helped a few people, not counting me (/me != dev) [1] [1] http://rsync.tar.bz/ I know this is always a topic on whether to have a knife is good or bad, and whether just possessing a gun makes you a bad guy... Same is here - if there is a possibility some people will eventually abuse it. But is this enough to disallow it whatsoever. Kalin. -- |[ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ]| +-> http://ThinRope.net/ <-+ |[ ______________________ ]| -- [email protected] mailing list
