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In my wine-a-holics overlay, I used symlinks. I found that
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occassionally, git would act up and replace the symlink with the linked
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file when committing. I never found out how or why, but for this
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reason alone, I highly recommend against it.
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Regarding the comment about regular and live versions, I'd also
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recommend against this for the simple reason that sometimes something
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changes upstream before a release comes out, and it adds an additional
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complication of worrying about edits to the live version changing a
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versioned ebuild.
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- --NP-Hardass
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On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 15:12:08 +0200
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"Justin Lecher (jlec)" <jlec@g.o> wrote:
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> Hi, |
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> I would like to discuss the pro and cons of usage of symlinks in the |
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> tree, which are possible now as we aren't bound to CVS anymore |
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> We have quite a number of ebuilds already in the tree defining |
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> functionality for both, regular version and live versions. These are |
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> typical candidates. Same for different package versions with the same |
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> ebuild. |
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> What is your opinion on making heavy use of symlinks here? |
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> Personally I would ban symlinks and duplicated code. One ebuild for |
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> one version. And in case you like to propagate changes over several |
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> ebuilds, just use tools like meld. |
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> A drawback is that tools like sed break symlinks and write back a |
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> plain files. |
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> And last, we have potential breakages if people don't give enough care |
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> when doing stabilizations and removal of version. |
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> nevertheless, we would slim the tree and reduce work when changing |
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> things like HOMEPAGE. |
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> So please discuss this matter. |
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> Justin |
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