On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Alexander V Vershilov <alexander.vershi...@gmail.com> wrote: > The main point that haskell ecosystem is very breaky and only latest > version is supported, so > the safest path is to be on a bleeding edge and patch inconsistent > applications. So if one > package gets updated then commonly we need to fix its reversed deps, > if it were in tree than > we would be involved into stabilization process and in the end will > delay updating deps, and > the difficulty of tracking all version variant will be much higher > than no, at the end the quality > of the packages in tree will fall. Really we can _guarantee_ that > everything work in overlay > but there is either no technical or bureaucracy reasons that prevent > from fixing as soon as > possible.
Still seems like working in gentoo-x86 without doing stabilization would cover most of those bases. Working in the unstable main tree is still a lot better than keeping stuff out there in an overlay, IMO. Cheers, Dirkjan
