Re: multilib, slot conflicts, and the sun going down

On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 09:04:45 +0100
Tiago Marques <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 3:37 AM, Brent Busby <[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
> > "E. Liddell" <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > > Correction to previous message:  "mv kde-apps/* kde-base/", not "cp -=
r"--
> > > having two copies around may confuse Portage on some operations.  It
> > > may also be necessary afterwards to edit /var/lib/portage/world and
> > > other supporting files to revert unwanted kde/apps instances to
> > > kde/base.
> >
> > Should we really be going in that direction?  For whatever reason,
> > Gentoo main has decided it's kde-apps now.  Shouldn't we try to conform
> > the overlay to that rather than locally kludge the main Portage tree to
> > match the overlay?
> >
>=20
> =E2=80=8BSeems like a good idea. Did someone actually follow up on a prev=
ious
> request for a maintainer for the overlay?

That, I think, is the main question.  Moving the packages shouldn't be
difficult, but is there anyone around who still even has commit rights
for the overlay?

E. Liddell