Consus wrote: > This is how overlays work right now. What are suggesting to change?
Technically not a lot in terms of how packages get installed. It's more about offering support and/or visibility for overlays. So technically it's about hosting user repos, making the ebuilds within easily discoverable, and simplifying their consumption. I would personally be super happy to have my overlay hosted at Gentoo - not because I can't host it myself - but because that would be a lovely recognition and a great way to get more visibility and thus more help with the packages that I've made more or less serious attempts at packaging. Usually they are less seriuos attemps, otherwise I would proxymaint them, but they are good enough for me, so maybe for someone else as well, even though they may be totally incomplete e.g. as far as USE flags go. (This is true for ebuilds in gentoo too, but I would never want my name on something like that for the actual tree; I want to deliver higher quality there, and until I have time to do so the half-assed ebuilds stay in my overlay. They wouldn't get included anyway, and they shouldn't.) //Peter
