On Tuesday 06 July 2010 01:48:43 Dale wrote: > Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 01:29 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> > >> does he speak for all of you ? > > > > huh? > > This was sent to -dev too. It referenced this bug on that list. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326991 > > Still not sure what is going on with this yet. It's a head scratcher. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
Gentoo uses upstream master sources and cherry picked patches. Not quite as rigid on upstream-only as say Slackware, but close. Ubuntu chucks all manner of wild fancy-free patches into their distro with nary a care in the world for the results - they are an experimental distro. Red Hat and SLES deviate so far from upstream it just isn't funny anymore. Their customer's need very different things to desktop users and gentoo sysadmins. Where's the common ground to combine all of that into one repository? The idea is a pipe dream. The correct place for stuff like that is in an overlay where it can be tested then pushed upstream if found workable. From there it makes it's way down to the users. The OP is essentially asking to switch steps 2 and 3. flameeyes and spanky are telling him not to pollute the tree in such a ways. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
