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On Monday 14 July 2003 15:24, Todd Berman wrote: |
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> Just in general, app-cvs is a 'BAD' idea. |
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> It defeats the *entire* purpose of what is going on in general. |
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> However, I fully agree with known good cvs-snapshots being used for |
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> packages in the portage tree, but live cvs ebuilds prevent any sort of |
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> QA in general being done on Gentoo's end. And if you are really wanting |
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> to use cvs, its assumed that you will be updating and recompiling fairly |
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> often, and a live-pull cvs ebuild doesnt really help you. |
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> In general, baring notable exceptions (gaim-cvs, private live-cvs pull |
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> ebuilds) I dont think live-cvs ebuilds are a good idea at all, and |
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> surely not a sound reason to add a category just for their use. |
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I fully agree with this. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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