On 09/06/06, Luis Francisco Araujo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, i agree, writting and maintaining ebuilds is a hard and *time-consuming* task. So if an user can't even take the time to fix a digest, why we should support him officially?.
The point is that there are lots of users who are interested in niche packages that no developers use or are interested in. These users have the skills to write an ebuild, and other users of the package have the skills to fix and maintain that ebuild over time. These guys don't mind downloading ebuilds from bugzilla and fixing digests. But there are a larger class of users of niche packages that don't have the ebuild skills, and don't want the hassle of bugzilla and digest fixing. This larger group of users are the ones that would benefit from an overlay. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
