On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 11:51 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Robert Cernansky wrote: > > If I have some application that is not included in portage why > > I decide to make an ebuild? Because I hope that then it will be > > accepted and included to portage, so maintained by developers (big > > thanks for this). If I have to take care of package + ebuild + > > dependencies, I'll rather choose not to make an ebulid but compile > > package right from .tar.gz archive. > > Many people disagree with you here, that's why overlays exist. Somebody > wants to use Portage to manage ebuilds that aren't yet in the actual tree. >
I have to say I agree with Donnie here on this. I've been using private ebuilds for certain things that are installed on my work systems that will never be applicable to anyone except for 4 people on this planet. Yet I use these because then I'm able to take this simple single file, plonk it into another Gentoo machine and recreate the same installation. Maybe it is just because making ebuilds is now just second nature to me. Look at my overlay at the moment, half the stuff there have a less than 30% chance of ever making it into the main portage tree. But I still make those ebuilds in the off chance that either (a) I do decide to put them in, or (b) someone else might stumble across them and find it, and (c) there are just things that I cannot test because I don't have the hardware. Proxy-dev and sunrise are completely different things. But both are trying to decrease the steps needed to contribute to open source, so in my book, that is a good thing. Cheers, Alastair -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
