Re: [gentoo-dev] where goes Gentoo?

2005-06-06 Thread James Northrup
On Jun 6, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Aron Griffis wrote: This is kinda bloggish, because it's basically a transcription of an IRC monologue. My apologies if it's hard to follow... Nonetheless, I'm interested in how other developers feel on the topics I bring up below. overlay capabilities are

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Treewide metadata.xml

2005-05-27 Thread James Northrup
I like the xml generation pass but i have a few questions: does the xml-publish transaction lend a greater window of opportunity for mirror rsync de-sync? does it make sense for digest info be sucked up into the xml pass, to be superceded by the legacy files where present ala ebuild

Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) ro-overlays

2005-05-25 Thread James Northrup
overall I'm quite pleased with genkernel and have relegated much tedium to its functions over time. perhaps it's a worthy mule for more responsibility. I have mirror volumes which have survived almost 8 years with 2nd and third generation drives, motherboard, and architecture (32-64 bit).