On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:04:57PM +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: > > "svn co http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/sunrise/category/application"; > "emerge application" >
As long as it's made for pulling single ebuilds (and their support files), i think it's really helpfull. It's exactly the same as downloading single ebuilds from Bugzilla just without the pain of using bugzilla for it. While Bugzilla is fine for handling bugs, i think it's annoying to use for maintaining and downloading ebuilds. The "danger" of people breaking something is exactly the same though. I don't see a difference between downloading an ebuild with bugzilla and fetching them with svn. What i would fear is a full overlay with eclasses and many other things the user didn't cherry pick. I would mostly like a method to easily add external ebuilds to my own overlay. When that source allows people to maintain their ebuilds in a simple way, it's also better. Raising the annoyance bar for handling ebuilds doesn't increase their quality. Christian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
