Peter Hjalmarsson posted on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:54:23 +0100 as excerpted: > I have start to question why should we care about overlays more then the > actual portage tree? > > Take for example the kernel or Xorg. > They give themselves a period of time to clean up their own code (i.e. > kernel-modules, xorg-drivers) and then they release it as stable and > tell users/distributors to upgrade. > They do not wait for nVidia/AMD/other out-of-tree drivers/modules to > catch up. > > Now if we say we have someone managing an overlay, and this person do > miss this warning/die for half an year, then I would say they have nott > done their homework and they are on their own. I do not see why we > should wait unreasonable long periods of time because there may be > someone broken somewhere.
While I didn't mention overlays in my earlier reply, that's exactly why I proposed four months each in warning and die, before removal altogether. That gives the once-per-quarter updaters a bit of extra time to catch it at each stage, and if they've not done so by four or even eight months out... waiting a full year, or two, or three... isn't necessarily going to help matters much. Besides, if they're /that/ far behind the main tree, what sort of overlay maintainer are they anyway? Hardly one that should be basing on Gentoo, which has always been a "rolling" distribution. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
