games-emulation/retroarch, any chance to add it to gentoo ?

[sdauth]

Hello,
A bunch of libretro cores are available in gentoo (and also eclass for libretro-core)

eix --in-overlay gentoo --only-names libretro

[NeddySeagoon]

sdauth,

If you already have the ebuilds, contribute them to the guru overlay.
That way, you are the maintainer, so you get the bugs to fix :)

To get them moved into ::gentoo requires a gentoo developer to take an interest in the ebuilds.
Be warned that this could be you ... it's addictive. :)
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[sdauth]

NeddySeagoon,
Yes I know. The cold truth is that I am too lazy to do it.
I looked at the gentoo log and can't find any trace of retroarch. I wonder why there are still some cores in ::gentoo
From what I know, these can only be used with retroarch (correct me if I'm wrong)

Anyway, let this thread be a thermometer to measure enthusiasm about adding retroarch to ::gentoo
Maybe it will pick devs interest to add it to ::gentoo (or even me, who knows !)

[NeddySeagoon]

sdauth,

File a bug. Most devs don't read the forums.
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[sdauth]

I noticed a bug was filed a few years ago : https://bugs.gentoo.org/653274
with a pull request : https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/13253

but it is closed :

[NeddySeagoon]

sdauth,

It sounds like your are on the slippery slope to package maintenance. :)

Good luck!
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.