Francisco Gimeno wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I was wondering about having several portage trees to allow external 
> distributor having repositories of packages.
<snip>
> It could be really useful, if we could use something like it

This has been brought up before and I personally do not really like the 
idea too much, i think it makes the distro less reliable as whole if we 
add options like this. People will start using repositories here and 
there and in the end we will get bugreports on ebuilds we never approved 
or even saw (and some ebuilds can have far reaching effects). No, i 
think 'external distributors' should try and go trough the normal 
channels and get their ebuilds Gentoo approved.

> 
> I think it solves a lot of complains about flexibility and edging of Gentoo.
> 

What complaints ? Is it so hard to download an ebuild in put it in your 
local overlay ? The extra step required does make sure you are aware 
that you are using non-approved ebuilds.

- foser

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