[sabayon-dev] About splitting sabayon overlay to easily use it on Gentoo

[Pacho Ramos]

Hello

I have talked about this a bit with Fabio and he encouraged me to
suggest this here :)

After reading Donnie's article:
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/458794/3200f94be1e49826/

I remembered that maybe the following idea would help a bit to Gentoo
people (without any disadvantage for Sabayon, I think):

Currently, a sabayon overlay is available to easily be used though
layman, the problem is that it includes two kind of packages:
- Packages with sabayon additions like wallpapers, customizations and
others -> this packages are more "sabayon specific"
- Packages that are not yet included in Gentoo -> this kind of packages
could be used without major problems on Gentoo.

Then, the idea is to split sabayon overlay to have two overlays: one
oriented to people wanting to migrate from Gentoo to Sabayon, the other
one to be widely used by Gentoo users.

That way, I could also install additional packages from your overlay
and, personally, I really trust sabayon maintained packages over other
third party overlays ;)

What do you think about this?

Thanks a lot
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