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Date:      Fri, 26 Mar 2021 09:06:08 -0700
From:      Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com>
To:        RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Python 2.7 removal outline
Message-ID:  <8552dddf3bc33e42ae124cd4ea53fb4f@bsdforge.com>
In-Reply-To: <20210326154426.7c7079f2@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On 2021-03-26 08:44, RW via freebsd-ports wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:55:33 +1100 (EST)
> Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, George Mitchell wrote:
>> 
>> >> [...] it is really not for everybody to use overlays in current
>> >> state (overlays are poor documented at least). [...]
>> >
>> > Until this thread I had never heard of them.                  --
>> > George
>> 
>> I can't remember the last time I used overlays (certainly with CP/M);
>> I didn't know that FreeBSD even supported them (why bother when
>> you've got VM?).
> 
> I doubt that meaning of overlay is going to be relevant. I'd not heard
> of it either, but from looking in ports/Mk/ it seems to be a way of
> modifying port builds.
As I understand it. It allows you to graft out-of-tree ports/versions
onto the ports-tree-proper.

--Chris
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