On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:07:09 +0100 > Theo Chatzimichos <[email protected]> wrote: > >> these days I am working on a puppet module for portage. For testing I >> have created a dummy package which can be found here [1]. The package >> installs files based on useflags, and it comes in stable, testing and >> hardmasked versions, plus it has some useflag changes between >> versions. With this package I can make sure that the puppet provider >> does its various operations fine. I'm about to start writing unit >> tests for that provider, and I would like to use that package for the >> testing. It would be preferred to move that package in tree though. >> Since the ebuilds are useless for everybody else, and maybe violate >> policy about the stable tree, I'd like to know if there are any >> objections to move it to tree. If there are none, I'll move it in one >> month >> >> [1] https://github.com/gentoo-el/overlay/tree/master/app-misc/dummy > > To be honest, I don't mind having dummy packages in the tree. I would > be happy to convert gentoopm sometime to use them instead of relying on > random packages to match its criteria. > > However, I'd rather see them in a special category, and preferably > prefixed with 'gentoo-' to make it least possible for any kind of name > collisions. > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny
If there are more dummy packages then a separate category seems good idea (and thanks for that), but if mine is the only case then i don't see a reason for that Theo
