On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 11:01 +0100, Edward Catmur wrote: > > Hmmm. I think an overlay does have some advantages there ... > > Advantages? With bugzilla I: search for the bug, cc myself on it, > download the relevant files, look over them, note a style error, try to > merge it, fix a compilation bug, re-upload the fixed ebuild and patch to > bugzilla with a comment to the ebuild author on their mistake. When an > update hits my inbox I can go directly to the bug... > > With an overlay: search sunrice.gentoo.org for the package (no, I don't > know category/name), sync that directory (no, I'm not syncing the whole > sunrice tree), check it over, note some mistakes, compile it if I feel > OK with it, it fails, I fix it - and what then? Where do I discuss the > problems? How do I get my fixes to other users, considering the package > is devless and the b.g.o bug is out of date? If I open a b.g.o bug, will > it be read? > > This seems like *raising* the barrier to entry to me...
Thank you. This explains my point about no longer having a definitive place to look for things much better than I did, and from a user point-of-view no less. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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