Update Readme.md to ref official Gentoo Repos #577

2020-03-22T19:57:23+01:00

antler5 commented

2020-03-22 19:57:23 +01:00

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As per https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/pull/566 and https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/issues/76 Gentoo users must install from the official repos. The ebuild included in the mentioned overlay will not build at this time as it uses an outdated, unsupported EAPI, and will not be updated, having been superseded by an official package. User confusion and frustration may result if the Readme is not updated. https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/pull/566 suggests removing the section entirely, which would also work, but I figure we give directions for other distros ¯\(ツ)/¯

One could argue that I should have left the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS env var, but any Gentoo user should be familiar enough with Portage to resolve any possible package keyword issues, or should take this as an opportunity to look it up and set it permanently. I would not recommend installing packages with temporary env use flags unless resolving conflicting use flags while updating or installing a oneshot package, which is not the case here. The paragraph about safe emerge practices remains and sufficiently hints the user towards resolving any keyword issues themselves that I felt the env var no longer needed set temporarily on initial installation. Doing so would likely prevent any nieve users who might have benefited from bypassing keyword issues from receiving updates in the future.

As per https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/pull/566 and https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/issues/76 Gentoo users must install from the official repos. The ebuild included in the mentioned overlay will not build at this time as it uses an outdated, unsupported EAPI, and will not be updated, having been superseded by an official package. User confusion and frustration may result if the Readme is not updated. https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/pull/566 suggests removing the section entirely, which would also work, but I figure we give directions for other distros ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ One could argue that I should have left the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS env var, but any Gentoo user should be familiar enough with Portage to resolve any possible package keyword issues, or should take this as an opportunity to look it up and set it permanently. I would not recommend installing packages with temporary env use flags unless resolving conflicting use flags while updating or installing a oneshot package, which is not the case here. The paragraph about safe emerge practices remains and sufficiently hints the user towards resolving any keyword issues themselves that I felt the env var no longer needed set temporarily on initial installation. Doing so would likely prevent any nieve users who might have benefited from bypassing keyword issues from receiving updates in the future.

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Reference: seeseemelk/cool-retro-term#577