-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Chris,
Chris Gianelloni wrote: | What we *are* arguing against is having something in a | non-project-specific overlay, that is not maintained by the project in | question, and has *specifically* been rejected by the project in | question. This sort of thing should *never* make it into the sunrise | overlay, since it has been rejected. I don't agree that the principle you're putting forward here is one that actually exists in Gentoo. Packages are grouped into herds, which are managed by projects. If a package doesn't belong to a herd, then it doesn't belong to the project, and other developers are free to take ownership of the package and include it into the tree. A great example of this are web-based applications. The web-apps project does not own all the web-based packages in the Portage tree. There are many such packages in the tree that are managed by developers that are not part of the project. The web-apps project gets to decide what happens to the packages grouped in the web-apps herd, but we neither have the right (nor the desire) to tell other developers that they can't add web-based packages to the tree; nor do other developers require our permission before adding packages to the tree. What they _do_ need is our permission before dumping packages into the web-apps herd. If a developer doesn't want a package in our herd, then he doesn't need our permission to add the package into the tree. That said, there obviously has to been a level of pragmatism. If a project recommends that a package doesn't belong in the tree because it is dangerous to users, then it would be irresponsible of developers to go against this advice without good reason. But otherwise, if you don't want a package in your project, it's no longer your package to make decisions about. You've declined stewardship of the package, leaving others free to take on the package instead if they wish. | Please people, be sure you're actually commenting on the issues at hand, | rather than just adding noise. Is that really fair? What's noise to you isn't noise to everyone else. Best regards, Stu - -- Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ ~ http://blog.stuartherbert.com/ GnuPG key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEj0HFDC+AuvmvxXwRAhe4AKCWExHyIObPtLJn3coWZLag7FysTwCeIZD9 /tM0C92JOb/6AXHMyDLpiAI= =hfRB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
