On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 00:35 +0200, hasufell wrote: > On 07/22/2013 12:33 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Dnia 2013-07-22, o godz. 00:16:31 hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> > > napisał(a): > > > >> On 07/22/2013 12:07 AM, Duncan wrote: > >>> hasufell posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:22:24 +0200 as > >>> excerpted: > >>> > >>>> solution: Treeclean it and maintain it in an overlay (maybe > >>>> science-overlay). That's exactly what overlays are for... > >>>> experimental stuff. > >>> > >>> What's the pros/cons of overlay vs. in-tree-but-masked for > >>> something like this? In-tree-but-masked is at least available > >>> for those who want it, without having to load an overlay, but I > >>> don't see that discussed at all, here. > >>> > >> > >> cons: - users have to run "layman -a foo" ...I hope they will > >> manage (and the masking reason will be updated to explain where > >> to look for googleearth ebuilds) > > > > Then to get *a single package* they start using the whole overlay. > > If it's a sane overlay, fine. But some overlays really replace a > > lot of stuff silently and trigger failures we didn't even imagine > > before. > > > > No. > > I'd either use a separate single-purpose overlay or add it to > science-overlay.
If it's a separate overlay, then googleearth overlay in gentoo's github account for easy access for users, both to get and contribute.
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