[Dovecot] Gentoo overlay?

[Steve]

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:12:44 -0400
> Von: Charles Marcus <CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com>
> An: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot at dovecot.org>
> Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] Gentoo overlay?

> On 7/27/2009 12:58 AM, Steve wrote:
> >> Enough, I'm really only interested in further responses if someone
> >> actually wants to respond to the subject of the message.
> 
> > Here you go:
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276480
> 
> Thanks for trying, but that is not an overlay, it is just an ebuild, and
> only a work in progress at that... yes, I know how to manually add
> ebuilds to my local overlay (I have a few), but I would prefer to find a
> fully functional overlay (3rd party is fine) maintained by someone who
> knows what they are doing and will keep dovecot up to date on an ongoing
> basis...
> 
I am not aware of such an overlay. None of the public available at http://overlays.gentoo.org/ have Dovecot in their repository.


> p.s. Steve - sorry if I took your simple comment too personally,
>
Yes. You did. But hey! We are all human and what do I know what happened on that day in your life? Nothing. Maybe you just had a bad day? I am not mad at all. Why should I?


> but the
> 'well, just build it yourself' response from programmers just irks me
> sometimes...
>
I understand that. But I am not a programmer. I know programming and sure one part of my earning is done from programming but that is just one small part. Anyway...


> maybe even there's a hint of jealousy in there somewhere
> too... ;)
> 
You should not be. In the beginning everything is somehow hard. But only starting is the hard part. After a while you will find yourself doing it for pretty much everything you need and can't wait that a Gentoo developer does it for you. You even will realize that not everything done in Gentoo is the way you like it and you see then possibilities in doing things better (for you) then the original Gentoo ebuild developer has done. Off course you will go to bugs.gentoo.org and post there your requests for change and there will be situations/ebuilds where the original Gentoo developer will welcome your changes and there will be situations/ebuilds where the Gentoo developer is ignorant and you give up and basically maintain your own ebuild.



> -- 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
Kind Regards,


> Charles
>
Steve
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