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From: "Fernando J. Pereda" <ferdy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] $Header:$ and ebuilds
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:36:02
Message-Id: 20070420123107.GA12259@ferdyx.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] $Header:$ and ebuilds by Mike Frysinger
1 On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:22:42AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > does anyone actually find this useful ? i think ive used the value in there
3 > like once (when in reality a `md5sum` would have worked just as well) ...
4 > otherwise, from my perspective:
5 > - it causes annoying bogus hunks in diffs
6 > - not uncommon for people to contact me as the maintainer because i'm in that
7 > - wastes space (well, probably not a strong argument due to bytes vs blocks)
8 > - for mostly green users, it's confusing and they get it wrong
9 > -mike
10
11 I don't see a reason to keep it... so lets kill it.
12
13 - ferdy
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16 Fernando J. Pereda Garcimartín
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